 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1860 - 488 pages
...posterity, as the basis and foundation of government : " All men are by nature equally free, and have inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. " All power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people ; magistrates are their... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1860 - 490 pages
...posterity, as the basis and foundation of government: " All men are by nature equally free, and have inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. " All power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; magistrates are their... | |
 | Charles Wilkins Webber - United States - 1861 - 434 pages
...rights, of which they can not, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity.0 Among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means, of...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. 2. That all power is, by Qod and nature, vested in, and consequently derived from the people... | |
 | Military art and science - 1861 - 658 pages
...into their own hands. In 1776, the representatives of Virginia passed a Bill of Kights, declaring, " that all men are, by nature, equally free and independent, and have ceitain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a (state of society, they cannot by any compact... | |
 | Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - Slavery - 1862 - 438 pages
...their Posterity, as the basis and foundation of Government. Unanimously adopted June ~L2th, 1776. 1. That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people ; that magistrates... | |
 | Virginia - Law - 1862 - 238 pages
...which -rights do pertain to them and their posterity as the basis and foundation of government. 1. That -all men are by nature equally free and independent,...have certain inherent rights, of which, when they cuter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely,... | |
 | Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - 1863 - 862 pages
...their Posterity, as the baiit and foundation of Government, Unanimously adopted June 1211,, 1776. . 1. That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety, 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that magistrates... | |
 | Ezra Champion Seaman - Constitutional history - 1863 - 312 pages
...Posterity, as the basig and foundation of Government. Unanimously adopted, June 12th, 1776. Sec. 1. That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a •fcite of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 694 pages
...the 27th of May by George Mason,' which proclaims that " All men are by nature equally free, and have inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." See also the Mecklenburg Declaration. The original draft of the Declaration of American 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... 
