| Constitutions - 1782 - 188 pages
...Art. I. A LL men are born free and equal, and have certa'n £\ natural, eflential, and qnalienable rights ; among which may be reckoned the right of...defending their lives and liberties ; that of acquiring, pofleffing, and protecting property ; in fine, that of feeking and obtaining their fafety and happinefs.... | |
| 698 pages
...oliflruft A others in their religious worfhip." The fir ft fentjmer.t in the article above recited is, that it is the right, as "well as the duty of all men in fociety, to worfli'p God. The idea intended to be conveyed, I take clearly to b« this ; that it being... | |
| Gabriel Bonnot de Mably - Constitutional history - 1785 - 296 pages
...of the thirty-feventh article of the conftitution of New York, be not ' intolerance fufficient ! " It is the right as well as the duty of all men in fo" ciety, publicly, and at ftated feafons, to worfhip " the SUPREME BEING, the GREAT CREATOR, and... | |
| Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1877 - 490 pages
...that article : " All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights, among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties." There are similar articles in the declaration of rights of New Hampshire and Pennsylvania. Soon after... | |
| William Winterbotham - America - 1796 - 580 pages
...poffcffing and protecting property; in fine, that of feekmg and obtaining their fafety and happmefs. II. It is the right as well as the duty of all men in fociety, publicly, and at dated feafons, to worfhip the Supreme Being, the Great Creator and Prefervcr... | |
| Booksellers and bookselling - 1800 - 306 pages
...pofleffing, and protefling property ; in fine, that of ieeking and .obtaining their fafety and happinefs. II. It is the right, as well as the duty, of all men in fociety, publicly, and at ftated feafons, to wor(hip the Supreme Being, the great Creator and Preferver... | |
| Readers - 1803 - 250 pages
...equal, and have certain natural, effential, and unalien.ibb rights; among which may be reckoned ihe right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, poffdTutg, and protecting property; in fine, that of feeking and obtaining their fafety and happinefs.... | |
| Constitutions - 1804 - 372 pages
...and equal, and have certain nataralleffentia!, and unalienable rights ; among which may be reckoaed the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties ; that of acquiring, poffefling, and protecting property ; in fine, that of feeking and obtaining their iafety and happinefs.... | |
| Massachusetts, William Charles White - Law - 1810 - 208 pages
...worship. The constitution declares, that it is the right, as well Declaration ol Right* s'•'• " as the duty, of all men in society, publicly, and at stated Rithtand dut of seasons, to worship the supreme being. And no subject P cwonh,1,. shall be hurt, molested... | |
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