 | 1890 - 1226 ページ
...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,...or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of Ule and liberty, with the means of acquiringand possessing property, and of pursuing and obtaining... | |
 | Jacob Piatt Dunn - 1888 - 498 ページ
...of Rights of 1776, which was reaffirmed in their Constitution of 1830, opened with this article : " That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." * This provision is as capable of sustaining a construction of emancipation as either of the... | |
 | Jacob Piatt Dunn - 1888 - 484 ページ
...of Rights of 1776, which was reaffirmed in their Constitution of 1830, opened with this article : " That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or diveat their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and... | |
 | G. Alan Tarr - 2000 - 262 ページ
...the proper, natural and safe Defense of a free Government"; and the Virginia Declaration of Rights that "all men are by nature equally free and independent,...they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity."63 Even provisions that might be enforceable sometimes included explanatory or justificatory... | |
 | Norman G. Kurland, Dawn K. Brohawn, Michael D. Greaney - 2004 - 262 ページ
...www.cesj.org "All men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." George Mason ( " Father of the American Bill of Rights") Article 1 of the Virginia Declaration... | |
 | Stephen M. Feldman - 2000 - 288 ページ
...rights: "all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights . . . namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." Hence, while the first state constitutions were not solely republican in nature — rather... | |
 | Thomas G. West - 1997 - 244 ページ
...was a fundamental natural right. The first article of the 1776 Virginia Declaration of Rights reads: That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.6 The constitutions of several other states either quoted or paraphrased the Virginia language,... | |
 | Paul Finkelman - 2002 - 488 ページ
...Virginia Declaration was carefully designed to finesse the issue of slavery. The document declared that: All men are by nature equally free and independent,...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.34 In his first draft of this clause George Mason had written that all men were "born equally... | |
 | Michael Novak - 2001 - 378 ページ
...by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. Flowing from these "natural rights" are the "civil" and "political" rights, specifying the... | |
 | Willi Paul Adams - 2001 - 406 ページ
...the first of them, the Virginia bill of rights. They "have certain inherent rights, of which, . . . they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety."20 In contrast to the Declaration of Independence, this formulation did not invoke a divine... | |
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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... 
