 | 1877 - 852 ページ
...their rights and liberties, declare that the inhabitants of the English colonies in North America, hy the immutable laws of Nature, the principles of the English Constitution, and the several charters and compacts, have the following rights,' etc. Mr. Tucker, of Virginia, said: " Mr. Chairman, what... | |
 | Egerton Ryerson - 1880 - 556 ページ
...in like cases have usually done, for asserting and vindicating their rights and liberties, DECLARE, that the inhabitants of the English colonies in North...several charters or compacts, have the following rights : " Resolved, N. c. D. 1st, That they are entitled to life, liberty, and property ; and they have never... | |
 | United States - 1969 - 348 ページ
...in like cases have usually done, for asserting and vindicating their rights and liberties, declare, That the inhabitants of the English colonies in North...several charters or compacts, have the following rights : Resolved, NCD 1. That they are entitled to life, liberty, and property, and they have never ceded... | |
 | California. State Department of Education - 1969 - 84 ページ
...superstructure is overthrown of course. These views were repeated in the Declaration of Rights in 1774, which declared that "the inhabitants of the English Colonies...in North America, by the immutable laws of nature, have the following rights," which were then identified as those of "life, liberty and property." This... | |
 | George White - 2011 - 852 ページ
...That the inhabitants of the English Colonies of North America, by the immutable laws of nature, tho principles of the English Constitution, and the several charters or compacts, have the following Rights : Secondly. — That they are entitled to life, liberty and property, and they have never ceded to... | |
 | Rene Albert Wormser, Rene Wormser - 1972 - 628 ページ
...basic rights, a statement which anticipates the premises of the Declaration of Independence: ". . . the inhabitants of the English Colonies in North America,...constitution, and the several charters or compacts ... are entitled to life, liberty, and property, & they have never ceded to any sovereign power whatever,... | |
 | Harlan D. Unrau - 1976 - 358 ページ
...rights from the Sugar Act to the Coercive Acts. These rights, stated the declaration, were guaranteed "by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of...Constitution, and the several charters or compacts." Now, in 1774, after a decade of attempting to gain recognition for colonial rights within the British... | |
 | John Richard Alden - 1984 - 356 ページ
...adopted a Declaration of Rights that demanded recognition by Britain of American liberties based upon "the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English constitution," and charter rights; repeal of the many obnoxious measures adopted by Parliament after 1763; and withdrawal... | |
 | Michael Kent Curtis - 1986 - 292 ページ
...Congress of 1774 in the Declaration of Rights declared That the inhabitants of the English colonies of North America, by the immutable laws of nature, the...several charters or compacts, have the following rights: "Resolved that they are entitled to life, liberty, and property, and that they have never ceded any... | |
 | John Phillip Reid - 2003 - 398 ページ
...ambiguous note" because the Continental Congress's Declaration of Rights appealed simultaneously to "the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English constitution, and the several charters and compacts." The truth is there was little substantive difference between natural rights and positive... | |
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That the inhabitants of the English colonies in North America, by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English Constitution, and the several charters or compacts, have the following rights : Resolved, NCD 1. 
