| West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals, Edgar P. Rucker - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 940 pages
...equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state ot society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest...the means of acquiring and possessing property, and of possessing and obtaining happiness and safety." The law which we are considering is claimed to conffict... | |
| George Bancroft - United States - 1886 - 486 pages
...they said do pertain to them and their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government : " All men are by nature equally free, and have inherent...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. " All power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people ; magistrates are their... | |
| Richard Faber - Humanism - 2003 - 298 pages
...Art. l heißt es: „That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain innerem rights, of which, when they enter into a state of...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety". Die Menschenrechtserklärung diente als Vorbild für weitere Erklärungen in anderen nordamerikanischen... | |
| Forrest Church - History - 2003 - 196 pages
...Virginians, adopted the month before: "All men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a...by any compact deprive or divest their posterity." To Mason, these rights were life, liberty, property, the pursuit of happiness and the ability to secure... | |
| Alexander Andrew Mackay Irvine Baron Irvine of Lairg - Law - 2003 - 391 pages
...legislatures began to enact Bills of Rights, expressing the common principle that: All men . . . have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a...they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity.12 7R Pound, 'The Development of American Law and its Deviation from English Law' (1951)67... | |
| Murray N. Rothbard - Business & Economics - 2002 - 364 pages
...of Rights: [A]ll men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent natural rights, of which, when they enter into a state of...they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity.6 Thus, we have seen (1) that no existing State has been immaculately conceived — quite... | |
| Robert Darnton - History - 2003 - 232 pages
...created equally free and independent, and have certain inherent natural rights . . . among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." Mason's wording runs exactly parallel to the famous phrase that Jefferson wrote into the Declaration... | |
| Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller, Jeffrey Paul - Law - 2005 - 428 pages
...the same opinion, claiming that "all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety."9 John Adams echoed this opinion in the bill of rights that served as a preamble to the Massachusetts... | |
| F. Forrester Church - History - 2004 - 182 pages
...foundation of government. SECTION i That all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. . . . SECTION xv That no free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to... | |
| William F. Jr Cox - Education - 2004 - 558 pages
...Bill first specifies: 1 . That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights of which, when they enter into a state...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that magistrates... | |
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