 | Beamish Murdoch - Nova Scotia - 1866 - 652 pages
...published a declaration of rights, to which, they say, the English colonies of North America are entitled, by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English •constitution, and their several charters or compacts. In the first of these are life, liberty and property, a right to... | |
 | William B. Wedgwood - Law - 1866 - 494 pages
...Colonial Congress which met at Philadelphia on the 5th of September, 1774, declared unanimously, "That the inhabitants of the English colonies in North America, by the immutable law of nations, the principles of the English constitution, and the several charters or compacts, are... | |
 | J. Arthur Partridge - United States - 1866 - 566 pages
...G-reat Britain" 'Resolution in Virginia Assembly, 1765. " That the inhabitants of the English colonies, by the immutable laws of nature, the Principles of the English Constitution, fyc. have certain rights." Resolution of '12 Colonies at Philadelphia Congress, 1774. " Permit us to... | |
 | Timothy Farrar - 1867 - 560 pages
...following, which has been repeated and re-enacted, in all possible forms, up to the present time: — " That the inhabitants of the English Colonies in North America,...the English Constitution, and the several charters and compacts, . . . are entitled to life, liberty, and property; and that they have never ceded, to... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1868 - 384 pages
...like cases have usually done, for asserting and vindicating their rights and liberties, DECLARE, That the inhabitants of the English Colonies in North America,...the English Constitution, and the several Charters n< Compacts, have the following RIGHTS. Resolved, NCD* 1. That they are entitled to life, liberty,... | |
 | John C. Devereux - Law - 1868 - 444 pages
...which, under various modifications, pervade all our constitutional charters. It was declared, ' " that the inhabitants of the English colonies in North America,...nature, the principles of the English constitution, and their several charters or compacts, were entitled to life, liberty, and property ;'-and that they had... | |
 | Calvin Townsend - United States - 1809 - 370 pages
...cases have usually done, for affecting and vindicating their rights and liberties, DECLARE, — That the inhabitants of the English Colonies in North America,...Constitution, and the several charters - or compacts, have the following RIGHTS : — Resolved, NCD,1 1. That they are entitled to life, liberty, and property... | |
 | Calvin Townsend - Constitutional law - 1869 - 596 pages
...cases have usually done, for affecting and vindicating their rights and liberties, DECLARE, — That the inhabitants of the English Colonies in North America,...Constitution, and the several charters or compacts, have the following RIGHTS : — Resolved, NCD,1 1. That they are entitled to life, liberty, and property... | |
 | Calvin Townsend - United States - 1869 - 396 pages
...like cases have .usually done, for asserting and vindicating their rights and liberties, declare, That the inhabitants of the English Colonies in North America,...Constitution, and the several Charters or Compacts, have the following Rights : Resolved, NCD' I. That they are entitled to life, liberty, and property,... | |
 | Franklin Chamberlin - Commercial law - 1869 - 1004 pages
...law as their law. The Congress, which met at Philadelphia in 1774, declared without dissent, " that the inhabitants of the English colonies in North America, by the immutable law of nations, the principles of the English constitution, and the several charters or compacts, are... | |
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That the inhabitants of the English colonies in North America, by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English Constitution, and the several charters or compacts, have the following rights: Resolved, NCD 1. 
