 | Maine. Legislature. House of Representatives - Parliamentary practice - 1855 - 226 pages
...following constitution for the government of the same. ARTICLE I. DECLARATION OF RIGHTS. SECTION 1. All men are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural, inherent and unalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing... | |
 | William Smyth - France - 1855 - 592 pages
...Maryland, and of North Carolina ; so the ninth article in that of South Carolina ; and so the rest. " All men are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural, inherent, and unalienable rights," says the declaration of the inhabitants of Vermont. " We hold these truths to... | |
 | Samuel Hazard, John Blair Linn, William Henry Egle, George Edward Reed, Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Gertrude MacKinney, Charles Francis Hoban - History - 1856 - 514 pages
...RIGHTS of the INHABITANTS of the COMMON WEALTH or STATE of PENNSYLVANIA. SECTION THE FIRST. That all Men are born equally free -and independent, and have certain natural, inherent and unalienable Rights amongst which are the enjoying and defending Life and Liberty, acquiring, possessing... | |
 | George MacDowell STROUD - Slavery - 1856 - 316 pages
...whole article, notwithstanding it enters more into detail than is altogether necessary : — " That all men are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural, inherent and unalienable rights, among which are the enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 770 pages
...political truths essential to the existence of free government. As, for instance, in Maine :* " All men are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural, inherent, and individual rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring property,... | |
 | Vermont Historical Society - Vermont - 1921 - 676 pages
...Article I. of the Declaration of Rights, made a part of the Vermont Constitution, reads: "That all men are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural, inherent and unalienable rights, amongst which are the enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing... | |
 | George Livermore - African Americans - 1862 - 246 pages
...Constitution of Vermont : — tton'of11" " ^ men are born equally free and independent, and Vermont have certain natural, inherent, and inalienable rights ; among which are the enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; and pursuing and obtaining happiness... | |
 | Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - Slavery - 1862 - 438 pages
...Vermont was framed July 4th, 1793, and amended in June, 1828. The first article declares — "That all men are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural, inherent, and unalienable rights : amongst which are the enjoying and defending life and liberty ; acquiring, possessing,... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1863 - 548 pages
...of Vermont : — Constitn- " All men are born equally free and independent, and have certain Vermont natural, inherent, and inalienable rights ; among which are the enjoying and defending life and liberty ; acquiring, possessing, and protecting property ; and pursuing and obtaining happiness... | |
 | Clement Laird Vallandigham - United States - 1864 - 586 pages
...free government? may be recognized and forever unalterably established, we declare, "SEO. 1. That all men are born equally free and independent, and have...certain natural, inherent, and inalienable rights, amongst which* are the enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting... | |
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That all men are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural inherent and unalienable rights, amongst which are the enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness... 
