 | 1885 - 696 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...the means of acquiring and possessing property, and of pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." The law we are considering is claimed to conflict... | |
 | Illinois State Board of Health - Public health - 1885 - 692 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...the means of acquiring and possessing property, and of pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." The law we are considering is claimed to conflict... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Forrest Church - History - 2003 - 196 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 any compact deprive or divest their posterity." To Mason, these rights were life, liberty, property, the pursuit of happiness and the ability to secure... | |
 | Murray N. Rothbard - Business & Economics - 2002 - 364 pages
...are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent natural rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, 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... | |
 | Alexander Andrew Mackay Irvine Baron Irvine of Lairg - Law - 2003 - 391 pages
...Rights, expressing the common principle that: All men . . . have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society 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... | |
 | Ronald J. Pestritto, Thomas G. West - Political Science - 2003 - 304 pages
...the property they earn. The Virginia Declaration of Rights names, among the rights of all men, "the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property."44 In the Founders' world, the laws of old Europe, and to some extent even American law,... | |
 | William F. Jr Cox - Education - 2004 - 558 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... | |
 | Murray Dry - Law - 2004 - 324 pages
...all men are by nature equally free and independenl anil 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. Sec. 2 [sic]: That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that... | |
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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... 
