 | The Brotherhood of Liberty, Newport, Rhode Island - 1900 - 352 էջ
...tyranny is coming home to the business and bosoms of the well-to-do classes, who begin to realize, first, that all men are by nature equally free and independent...they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity—namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property... | |
 | American Academy of Political and Social Science - 1900 - 552 էջ
...of the Virginian Declaration, that men "have certain inherent rights of which when they enter into society they cannot by any compact deprive or divest...property and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." The only difference between the language employed by Burke and that used by the authors of... | |
 | Daniel Judah Elazar - 1998 - 312 էջ
...rights and of (or in) constitutions. Thus, according to the Virginia Bill of Rights (1776): All men are by nature equally free and independent, and have...the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. The Vermont Declaration of Independence... | |
 | James Oakes - 1998 - 276 էջ
...In the same year Vir66 ginia enacted a constitution whose Bill of Rights opened with the declaration "that all men are by nature equally free and independent,...they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity."60 Mississippi's 1832 constitution announced that "all freemen, when they form a social... | |
 | Daniel T. Rodgers - 1998 - 294 էջ
...telltale phrases of the state of nature were first wedged into a statement of fundamental law. "All men are by nature equally free and independent, and have...by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity" — so the Virginia Convention boldly began its Declaration of Rights, in phrases which electrified... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1875 - 546 էջ
...given above, corresponds to the first article from the Virginia. Declaration, which follows: — " That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, hy any compact, deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of lite and liberty, with... | |
 | R. Stephen Humphreys - 1999 - 324 էջ
...embodied in the Bill of Rights is in fact the Virginia Bill of Rights of 1776; see esp. Article I: "That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity [my italics]." Quoted from Henry Steele Commager, ed., Documents of American History, 7th ed. (New... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - 1999 - 212 էջ
...their posterity as the basis and foundation of government. The first article of the aforesaid, asserts That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property,... | |
 | Guðmundur S. Alfreðsson, Asbjørn Eide - 1999 - 822 էջ
...people of Virginia (12 June 1776) is squarely based on natural rights and contract theory. It declares: That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, divest or deprive their posterity ... The Declaration of Independence of the United States (1776) says:... | |
 | Daniel Judah Elazar, John Kincaid - 2000 - 360 էջ
...compacts to establish new civil societies regularly. Witness the Virginia Bill of Rights (1776): [A]ll men are by nature equally free and independent and have...the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. The Vermont Declaration of Independence... | |
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That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with... 
