| United States. Congress - Law - 1858 - 638 pages
...thatamnng these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just power* from the consent of the governed ; that whenever, any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people... | |
| Alvan Stewart - History - 1860 - 442 pages
...among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just power from the consent of the governed." Such men as Milton, a Sydney, and a Russell, in their musings upon the rights of humanity, had caught... | |
| Orville James Victor - United States - 1862 - 554 pages
...among these are life, liberty, and the pursnit of happiness. That to secure these rights Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just power from the consent of the governed.' ' I have quoted so mnch at this time merely to MB. DOOLITTLE'S SPEECH. 141 show that, according to... | |
| Henry Charles Fletcher - United States - 1865 - 462 pages
...among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ; that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men, deriving their just power from the consent of the governed ; that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people... | |
| Frederick Saunders - Fourth of July celebrations - 1877 - 894 pages
...these were We, liberty and the pursuit of happiness ; that to secure these rights governments were instituted among men, deriving their just power from the consent of the governed ; that whenever any form of government became destructive of these ends, it was the right of the people... | |
| Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates - Virginia - 1878 - 914 pages
...natural rights of man. To secure these rights, says the declaration of independence, 'governments arj instituted among men, deriving their just power from the consent of the governed.' The very highest duty of the States when they entered the Union under the constitution was to protect... | |
| Frederick Saunders - Fourth of July celebrations - 1882 - 1040 pages
...these were life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness ; that to secure these rights governments were instituted among men, deriving their just power from the consent of the governed ; that whenever any form of government became destructive of these ends, it was the right of the people... | |
| Nebraska State Historical Society - Nebraska - 1905 - 598 pages
...MASON REPORT [June : suit of happiness. To secure these rights and protection of property, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just power from the consent of the governed. fl 2. No person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law. ' fl 3.... | |
| Hannah Maria Tracy Cutler - Women - 1886 - 194 pages
...life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and for the maintenance of these, all just governments are instituted among men, deriving their just power from the consent of the governed." Do you wonder, that in view of the fact that slavery has been permitted to intrench itself in the very... | |
| Archaeology - 1900 - 634 pages
...these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and that to secure these •ends governments are instituted among men, deriving their just power from the consent of the governed." It is not necessary that I should here repeat the long struggle and many endeavors of Washington, General... | |
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