 | Virginia. General Assembly - 1893 - 120 pages
...Virginia assembled in full and free convention; which rights do pertain to them and their posterity av the basis and foundation of government. 1. That all...property and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. 68 nation, are unauthorized and ought to be resisted with the whole power of the State. 3.... | |
 | Virginia. General Assembly - 1893 - 118 pages
...assembled in full an'l free convention; which rights do pertain to them and their posterity as the basin and foundation of government. 1. That all men are...property and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. 68 nation, are unauthorized and ought to be resisted with the whole power of the State. 3.... | |
 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention, George A. Glynn - 1894 - 1120 pages
...shall conclude, " Against the peace and dignity of the State." ARTICLE ITT. Rill of Riy/ifg. 1. All men are, by nature, equally free and independent, and...the means of acquiring and possessing property, and of pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. 2. All power is vested in, and consequently derived... | |
 | Daniel T. Rodgers - 1998 - 294 pages
...telltale phrases of the state of nature were first wedged into a statement of fundamental law. "All men are by nature equally free and independent, and have...by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity" — so the Virginia Convention boldly began its Declaration of Rights, in phrases which electrified... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1875 - 546 pages
...given above, corresponds to the first article from the Virginia. Declaration, which follows: — " That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, hy any compact, deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of lite and liberty, with... | |
 | R. Stephen Humphreys - 1999 - 324 pages
...embodied in the Bill of Rights is in fact the Virginia Bill of Rights of 1776; see esp. Article I: "That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity [my italics]." Quoted from Henry Steele Commager, ed., Documents of American History, 7th ed. (New... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - 1999 - 212 pages
...their posterity as the basis and foundation of government. The first article of the aforesaid, asserts That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property,... | |
 | Guðmundur S. Alfreðsson, Asbjørn Eide - 1999 - 822 pages
...people of Virginia (12 June 1776) is squarely based on natural rights and contract theory. It declares: That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, divest or deprive their posterity ... The Declaration of Independence of the United States (1776) says:... | |
 | Daniel Judah Elazar, John Kincaid - 2000 - 360 pages
...compacts to establish new civil societies regularly. Witness the Virginia Bill of Rights (1776): [A]ll men are by nature equally free and independent and have...the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. The Vermont Declaration of Independence... | |
 | R. Bruce Douglass, Joshua Mitchell - 2000 - 274 pages
...Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid. The Virginia Bill of Rights (written by George Mason in 1776): [A]ll men are by nature equally free and independent, and have...the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. The Vermont Declaration of 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... 
