| Richard Hildreth - Fugitive slaves - 1852 - 334 pages
...nature equally free and independent, and have certain INHERENT RIGHTS, of which, when they enter into society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest...of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing happiness and safety." Virginia Bili qf lit'g/its, Art. I. FIRST ENGLISH ILLUSTRATED EDITION. iKUtl)... | |
| Richard Hildreth - 1852 - 336 pages
...independent, and have certain INHERENT BIGHTS, of which, when they enter into society, they cannot hy any compact deprive or divest their posterity —...of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing happiness and safety." Virginia Bill qf Rights, Art. I. FIEST ENGLISH ILLUSTRATED EDITION. afflitf)... | |
| Jonathan French - 1854 - 534 pages
...are by nature equally free and inde- • pendent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people ; that magistrates... | |
| Constitutions, State - 1855 - 576 pages
...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...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people ; that magistrates... | |
| Charles Wilkins Webber - History - 1855 - 600 pages
...rights, of which they can not, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity.0 Among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. 2. That all power is, by God and nature, vested in, and consequently derived from the people... | |
| Richard Hildreth - Slavery - 1856 - 458 pages
...they enter into society, they cannot by any compact deprive . . ...... their liosterity, namely, tlie enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing happiness and safety."— Virginia "All me EIGHTS, Of or divest their of acquiring ar. u , v£iU of... | |
| John Codman Hurd - Law - 1858 - 778 pages
...independent, and have certain inherent rights of which when they enter into a state of society, they caunot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity ;...the means of acquiring and possessing property, and the pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.1 The fourth the King, " to remove all those restraints... | |
| United States. Attorney-General - Administrative law - 1858 - 600 pages
...believed that this right of emigration, or expatriation, is one of those inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity. But, although municipal laws cannot take away or destroy this great right, they may regulate the manner,... | |
| American cyclopaedia - 1859 - 790 pages
..."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...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. All power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people ; magistrates are their trustees... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1859 - 814 pages
...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...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. All power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people ; magistrates are their trustees... | |
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