| Maine. Legislature. House of Representatives - Parliamentary practice - 1855 - 226 pages
...inherent and unalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and of pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness. SEC. 2. All power is inherent in the people ; all free governments are founded in their authority and... | |
| Jonathan French - Newspapers - 1857 - 594 pages
...certain natural and unalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and of pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness. 2. All political power is inherent in the people. Government is instituted for the protection, security... | |
| Dan King - Dorr Rebellion, 1842 - 1859 - 382 pages
...certain natural and iualienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and of pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness ; " that the people are the source of all legitimate power ; that all governments derive their just... | |
| Alvan Stewart - History - 1860 - 442 pages
...certain natural and inalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and of pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness." 12* It was supposed there were from seven hundred to one thousand slaves, and from twenty-five hundred... | |
| Alvan Stewart - History - 1860 - 450 pages
...be doubted that it contravenes the 1st article of your Constitution, which assures us that man has the right of " acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and of pursuing, and of obtaining safety and happiness." Can safety, property, and happiness be maintained by men or nations... | |
| Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown - United States - 1862 - 548 pages
...inherent and inalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and of pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness." But what are all these sounding abstractions worth, if the studies, and the firmness, and the virtues... | |
| Manley Hopkins - Hawaii - 1866 - 604 pages
...the constitution granted by King Kamehameha II L, in 1852, and by Karnehameha V. in 1864, declares 'All men are free to worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences ; but the sacred privilege, hereby secured, shall not be construed as to justify acts of licentiousness or... | |
| American Colonization Society - History - 1867 - 214 pages
...and inalienable rights, — among which are the rights of enjoying and defending life and liberty, of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property,...and of pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness. SECT. 2. All power is inherent in the people : all free governments are instituted by their authority... | |
| FRANKLIN B. HOUGII - 1867 - 604 pages
...inherent and unalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and of pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness. § 2. All power is inherent in the people; all free governments are founded in their authority, and... | |
| J. W. Lugenbeel - History - 1868 - 318 pages
...inherent and inalienable rights — among which are the rights of enjoying and defending life and liberty, of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property,...and of pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness. SEC. 2. All power is inherent in the people ; all free governments are instituted by their authority... | |
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