 | John Wilson Campbell - Virginia - 1813 - 322 pages
...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, 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;... | |
 | Henry Clay - 1827 - 200 pages
...of this State, in the first section of the Bill of Rights, in the following words : " 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;... | |
 | Virginia. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1830 - 932 pages
...common to every human being. Take tin- definition of the first article of the Bill of Right! : " 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... | |
 | John D. Paxton - History - 1833 - 228 pages
...more read among us. It was sanctioned by our national and state legislatures ;* acted « "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:... | |
 | Virginia - Law - 1833 - 604 pages
...as the basis and foundation of government. (Unanimously adopted, June 12th, 1776.) 1. 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 posterily... | |
 | George Bourne - Enslaved persons - 1834 - 266 pages
...injury by one to another; and these rights are essential to their welfare.' ' — Delaware. "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... | |
 | Thomas Price - Slavery - 1837 - 36 pages
...THESE ARE LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS." — Declaration of Independence. " 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... | |
 | Joseph Tate - Law - 1841 - 992 pages
...and foundation of government. Unanimously adopted, June 12, 1776. [9 St. Larg. 109.] 1. 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... | |
 | Presidents - 1841 - 460 pages
...Posterity, as the basis and foundation of Government. Unanimously adopted, June 12th, 1776.. 1. 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... | |
 | John Adolphus - Great Britain - 1841 - 688 pages
...afterward received. 1. All men are born equally free and independent, and have certain inherent natural rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity ; among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property,... | |
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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... 
