| Isaac Candler - Southern States - 1824 - 562 pages
..." all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain rights of which they cannot deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring or possessing property." And yet if a citizen of that State wishes to do all in his power towards the... | |
| Isaac Candler - Southern States - 1824 - 540 pages
...“all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain rights of which they cannot deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring or possessing property.” And yet if a citizen of that State wishes to do all in his power towards... | |
| Timothy Pitkin - United States - 1828 - 562 pages
...which they could not, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity •, that among these was the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety—That all power was vested in and derived from the people, that magistrates... | |
| John D. Paxton - History - 1833 - 232 pages
...legislatures ;* acted * " That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a...acquiring and possessing- property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety."—Article 1, Bill of Bights of Virginia. Most of the states, either... | |
| Constitutional law - 1835 - 388 pages
...and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a nute of »ociety, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their...; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the mean« of acquiring and po*> sessing property, ana pursuing and obtaining happineM and «sfcty.... | |
| Slavery - 1837 - 340 pages
...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...acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety."— Virginia. " Through divine goodness, all men have by nature, the... | |
| Thomas Price - Slavery - 1837 - 36 pages
...HAPPINES8.”—Declaratwn of Independence. “All men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights; of which, when they enter into a...acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.”—Virginia. “Through divine goodness, all men have by nature,... | |
| Presidents - 1841 - 460 pages
...adopted, June \2th, 1776.1. That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a...acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the... | |
| 1848 - 544 pages
...announced among other things, "that all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a...acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." Upon " the basis and foundation" of this Declaration of Rights, the... | |
| John Bigelow - Constitutions - 1848 - 538 pages
...June 12th, 1776. SEC. 1. That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a...acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the... | |
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