 | 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...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." — Virginia. " Through divine goodness, all men have by nature, the rights of worshipping... | |
 | Presidents - 1841 - 460 pages
...them, and their Posterity, as the basis and foundation of Government. Unanimously adopted, June 12th, 1776.. 1. That all men are by nature equally free..., 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people ; that magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable... | |
 | Joseph Tate - Law - 1841 - 992 pages
...posterity, as the basis and foundation of government. Unanimously adopted, June 12, 1776. [9 St. Larg. 109.] 1. That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...2. That all power 'is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people ; that magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable... | |
 | United States - 1842 - 712 pages
...them and their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government, Unanimously adopted, June 12, 1776. " 1. That all men are, by nature, equally free...obtaining happiness and safety. "2. That all power is invested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that magistrates are their trustees and servants,... | |
 | Constitutions - 1843 - 434 pages
...Posterity, as the basis and foundation of Government. Unanimously adopted, June 12th, 1776. 1. TRAT all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have...safety. 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people ; that magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable... | |
 | Henry St. George Tucker - Natural law - 1844 - 372 pages
...it is that we find it at the head of our Virginia Bill of rights in the following emphatic terms ; " That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...into a state of society they cannot by any compact divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty with the means of acquiring and... | |
 | Lysander Spooner - Slavery - 1845 - 168 pages
..." that all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights," * * " namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the...and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." 2. The preamble to the Pennsylvania constitution used the word "slaves" in this connexion. It recited... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1853 - 884 pages
...unconstitutional, because of the clause in the Virginia bill of rights, which declares "that all men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inherent rights...of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing Tux, 1853. ] Mutin et al. Ez parte. and obtaining happiness and safety." And of this, he said: "to... | |
 | John Bigelow - Constitutions - 1848 - 538 pages
...Posterity, as the basis and foundation • of Government. Unanimously adopted, June IZth, 1776. SEC. 1. That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...safety. 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people ; that magistrates are their trustees and servants, ai*L at all times amenable... | |
 | 1848 - 544 pages
...foundation." This Declaration of Rights, bearing date June 12, 1776, announced among other things, " that all men are by nature equally free and independent,...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." Upon " the basis and foundation" of this Declaration of Rights, the convention proceeded to... | |
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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... 
