 | American Orators - 1857 - 668 pages
...maxims, which tend to the prostration of republicanism. We have one, sir, that all men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity. We have a set of maxims of... | |
 | American Orators - 1857 - 624 pages
...maxims, which tend to the prostration of republicanism. We have one, sir, that all men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divesi their posterity. We have a set of maxims of... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - Law - 1858 - 678 pages
...adopted, known as the Virginia Declaration of Rights (1 Hen. 47), of which the first article reads, " That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...the means of acquiring and possessing property, and the pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. 1 The fourth article—" That no man or set of men... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - Law - 1858 - 778 pages
...adopted, known as the Virginia Declaration of Bights (1 Hen. 47), of which the first article reads, " That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...which when they enter into a state of society, they caunot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity ; namely the enjoyment of life and liberty,... | |
 | United States. Attorney-General - Administrative law - 1858 - 600 pages
...happiness elsewhere ; and it is believed that this right of emigration, or expatriation, is one of those inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a...by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity. But, although municipal laws cannot take away or destroy this great right, they may regulate the manner,... | |
 | American cyclopaedia - 1859 - 790 pages
...adopted by the convention of 1829-'30, and re-adopted by the convention of 1860-'51, says: "All men are by nature equally free and independent, and have...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. All power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people ; magistrates are their trustees... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1859 - 792 pages
...adopted by the convention of 1829-'30, and re-adopted by the convention of 1850-'51, says : " All men are by nature equally free and independent, and have...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. All power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people ; magistrates are their trustees... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - History - 1859 - 702 pages
...natural rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive their posterity; among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. 2. [The same as the original draught of George Mason, except that the clause " by God and Nature"... | |
 | Frank Moore - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1859 - 618 pages
...republicanism. We have one, sir, that all men are by nature :ims of •ed by / kind — \S uirable V society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity. We have a set of maxims of... | |
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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... 
