 | John Adams Dix - United States - 1864 - 476 pages
...continue to vindicate a right established upon such a foundation ; that a people who have declared ' That all men are by nature equally free and independent,' ' and have made this declaration the first article in the formation of their government, should in defiance of... | |
 | HORACE GREELEY - 1865 - 670 pages
...the 27th of May by George Mason,4 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... | |
 | George Lunt - History - 1866 - 584 pages
...June 12, 1776, more than three weeks earlier. Of the latter instrument the first article reads : " That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." But at the very time that Bill of Rights was unanimously adopted by the Convention of Virginia,... | |
 | 1867 - 312 pages
...Convention, which rights do pertain to them and their posterity as the basis and foundation of Government. I. That all. men are by nature equally free and independent,...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. II. That this State shall ever remain a member of the United States of America, and that the... | |
 | George Lunt - United States - 1867 - 536 pages
...June 12, 1776, more than three weeks earlier. Of the latter instrument the first article reads : " That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." But at the very time that Bill of Rights was unanimously adopted by the Convention of Virginia,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1868 - 940 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,...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. 2. That this State shall ever remain a member of the United States of America, and that the... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1868 - 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... | |
 | Law - 1890 - 548 pages
...privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States." And the "Bill of Rights " of this State declares that " all men are, by nature, equally free and independent,...the means of acquiring and possessing property, and of pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." Const., art. 3. ยง 1. Can the Legislature, iu view... | |
 | Law - 1906 - 396 pages
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 | William Cabell Rives - United States - 1881 - 696 pages
...rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring...and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining hnppiness and safety. 2. That all power is by God and Nature vested in, and consequently derived from,... | |
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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... 
