 | George Bancroft - 1884 - 482 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 Henry Winston, Thomas Randolph Price, D. Lee Powell, John Meredith Strother, H. H. Harris, John P. McGuire, Rodes Massie, William Fayette Fox, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), Richard Ratcliffe Farr, John Lee Buchanan, George R. Pace - 1884 - 1242 pages
...of government. 1 . That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inhere! rights, of which, when they enter into a state of...posterity, namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, will the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.... | |
 | Virginia. General Assembly - 1885 - 92 pages
...convention; which rights do pertain to them and Ihtir posterity, as the basis and foundation of tpvernment. 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 :i member of the United States of America, and that the... | |
 | Illinois State Board of Health - 1885 - 694 pages
...constitution. Article 8 of our constitution, our bill of rights, section 1 (Acts of ±872-3, page 5), provides 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." The law we are considering is claimed to conflict... | |
 | 1885 - 696 pages
...constitution. Article 8 of our constitution, our bill of rights, section 1 (Acts of 1872-8, page 5), provides 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." The law we are considering is claimed to conflict... | |
 | West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals, Edgar P. Rucker - 1885 - 940 pages
...equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state ot society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest...the means of acquiring and possessing property, and of possessing and obtaining happiness and safety." The law which we are considering is claimed to conffict... | |
 | Howard Willis Preston - 1886 - 336 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 all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people ; that magistrates... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1886 - 486 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... | |
 | 1911 - 1148 pages
...happiness, without regal interference. That document provided: "That all men are by nature equally free, Independent, and have certain inherent rights, of...of acquiring and possessing property and pursuing happiness and safety." 1 Revised Code of Virginia 1819, p. 31. This conception of life and liberty... | |
 | 1886 - 896 pages
...independent, and have certain inherent rights of which, when they enter into a state of society, they can not by any compact deprive or divest their posterity,...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." And of this he said: "To deprive a citizen of any property already acquired, without a fair... | |
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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... 
