...having been -*• adopted by the ftates, fubjeft to a declaration of rights aflerting and fecuring from encroachment the great principles of civil and religious liberty, and the unalienable rights of the people ; among which are, " Liberty of confcience — freedom of the prefs...

...\n. B. BANKER, Secretaries. STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA. In Convention, August 1, 1788. RESOLVED, That a declaration of rights, asserting and securing from...principles of civil and religious liberty, and the unalicnable rights of the people, together with amendments to the most ambiguous and exceptionable...

...essential and inalienable rights of the people," according to the language of the Virginia Convention; and "asserting and securing from encroachment the great...liberty, and the inalienable rights of the people." as expressed by the Convention of North Carolina. It must follow that these two Conventions considered...

...same by substituting, in lieu of the said resolution and its preamble, the following resolution, — " Resolved, That, previous to the ratification of the...principles of civil and religious liberty, and the unallocable rights of the people, together with amendments to the most exceptionable parts of the said...

...the Journal. The resolution was accordingly read and entered, as follows, viz. : — " Resolved, That a declaration of rights, asserting and securing from...principles of civil and religious liberty, and the unalienable rights of the people, together with amendments to the most ambiguous and exceptionable...

...the following resolution, namely : " Resolved, That a declaration of rights, asserting and securing the great principles of civil and religious liberty,...together with amendments to the most exceptionable and ambiguous parts of the said Constitution of government, ought to be laid before congress and the...

...and inalienable rights of the people," according to the language of the Virginia Convention ; and " asserting and securing from encroachment the great...liberty, and the inalienable rights of the people," as expressed by the Convention of North Carolina. It must follow that these two Conventions considered...

...counter project, by which he proposed to declare that, previous to the ratification of the Constitution, a Declaration of Rights, asserting and securing from...amendments to the most exceptionable parts of the Constitution, ought to be referred by the convention of Virginia to the other States in the American...

...proposed to declare that, previous to the ratification of the Constitution, a Declaration of Eights, asserting and securing from encroachment the great...amendments to the most exceptionable parts of the Constitution, ought to be referred by the convention of Virginia to the other States in the American...

...counter project, by which he proposed to declare that, previous to the ratification of the Constitution, a Declaration of Rights, asserting and securing from...religious liberty, and the inalienable rights of the peopla, together with amendments to the most exceptionable parts of the Constitution, ought to be referred...