 | Edwin Meese - Constitutional law - 1985 - 20 pages
...of an emerging jurisprudence of liberty. When Thomas Jefferson wrote "that all men ... are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights", and "that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness," he was restating the American variation of the philosophic themes of English... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Judges - 1991 - 1304 pages
...organization based in Vienna, Virginia. The Declaration of Independence asserted that "We are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, and that, among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." The Declaration rested on the assumption that there exist "the laws of nature... | |
 | Paul Goetsch, Gerd Hurm - American literature - 1992 - 314 pages
...declare that you 'hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; and that among these are, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness'; and yet, you hold securely, in a bondage which, according to your own Thomas... | |
 | Howard Brotz - Social Science - 2011 - 641 pages
...ages: ,We hold these trurhs to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed with certain inalienable rights, and that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.' " Then came Dr. James Derham, who could tell even the learned Dr. Rush something... | |
 | Thomas P. Ferguson - Religion - 1993 - 212 pages
...that "we hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; [and] that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." He described the artificial and contractual nature of the state when he... | |
 | Steven H. Jaffe - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1996 - 246 pages
...midst of an age amazingly adjusted to slavery could cry out, All men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights and that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.' As maladjusted as Jesus of Nazareth who dreamed a dream of the fatherhood... | |
 | William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - Literary Collections - 1994 - 868 pages
...all men are endowed" — not by edicts of emperors or decrees of parliament, or acts of Congress, but "by their Creator with certain inalienable rights and that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and to secure these" — not grant them but secure them — "governments... | |
 | Lawrence Edward Carter - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 464 pages
...Declaration of Independence which says in essence that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, and that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, was written for whites. The Effects of the Separate out Equal Doctrine In... | |
 | Lawrence Edward Carter - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 464 pages
...Declara-tion of Independence which says in essence that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalien-able rights, and that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, was written for whites. The Effects of the Separate but Equal Doctrine In... | |
 | Richard M Battistoni - Law - 2000 - 198 pages
...declare that you "hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; and that among these are, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; and yet, you hold securely, in a bondage which, according to your own Thomas... | |
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... all men are created equal; and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; and that among these are, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness... 
