| Egerton Ryerson - American Confederate voluntary exiles - 1880 - 576 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, N. c. D. 1st, That they are entitled to life, liberty, and... | |
| Walter Raleigh Houghton - Political parties - 1882 - 586 pages
...like cases have usually done, for effecting 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, 1. That they are entitled to life, liberty, and property, and... | |
| John Lewis Peyton - Augusta County (Va.) - 1882 - 420 pages
...meeting, agreed upon a declaration of their rights, by which it was, among other things, declared that the inhabitants of the English colonies in North America,...the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the British Constitution, and the several charters, were entitled to life, liberty, and property, and that... | |
| United States - Constitutions - 1969 - 348 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 1. That they are entitled to life, liberty, and property,... | |
| California. State Department of Education - Moral education - 1969 - 84 pages
...overthrown of course. These views were repeated in the Declaration of Rights in 1774, which declared that "the inhabitants of the English Colonies in North America, by the immutable laws of nature, have the following rights," which were then identified as those of "life, liberty and property." This... | |
| Rene Albert Wormser, Rene Wormser - Law - 1972 - 628 pages
...basic rights, a statement which anticipates the premises of the Declaration of Independence: ". . . the inhabitants of the English Colonies in North America,...compacts ... are entitled to life, liberty, and property, & they have never ceded to any sovereign power whatever, a right to dispose of either without their... | |
| United States - 1974 - 170 pages
...conftitution, and the feveral charters or corapatfs, have the following RIGHTS. Rffohed, NCD i. THAT they are entitled to life, liberty, and property: and they have never ceded to any fovereign power whatever, a right to difpofe of either without their confent. Rf/ohed, NCD 2. THAT... | |
| Harlan D. Unrau - Government publications - 1976 - 358 pages
...rights from the Sugar Act to the Coercive Acts. These rights, stated the declaration, were guaranteed "by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of...Constitution, and the several charters or compacts." Now, in 1774, after a decade of attempting to gain recognition for colonial rights within the British... | |
| John Richard Alden - 1984 - 356 pages
...adopted a Declaration of Rights that demanded recognition by Britain of American liberties based upon "the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English constitution," and charter rights; repeal of the many obnoxious measures adopted by Parliament after 1763; and withdrawal... | |
| Michael Kent Curtis - Law - 1986 - 292 pages
...Congress of 1774 in the Declaration of Rights declared That the inhabitants of the English colonies of North America, by the immutable laws of nature, the...Constitution, and the several charters or compacts, have the following rights: "Resolved that they are entitled to life, liberty, and property, and that... | |
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