 | John Wilson Campbell - 1813 - 322 pages
...which rights do pertain to them and their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government. I. 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... | |
 | Henry Clay - 1827 - 200 pages
...the Government of this State, in the first section of the Bill of Rights, in the following words : " 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... | |
 | Virginia. Constitutional Convention - 1830 - 932 pages
...Abt0, it .*fN is an '• abstract principle," a wild and visionary speculation ! But again, Sir. Tne Bill of Rights declares, •' that all men are, by nature, equally free." And this is considered on abstraction par arcrllcnrc; the very abstraction of abstractions. It is even... | |
 | Virginia - 1833 - 604 pages
...their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government. (Unanimously adopted, June 12th, 1776.) 1. 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... | |
 | John D. Paxton - 1833 - 228 pages
...been or are more read among us. It was sanctioned by our national and state legislatures ;* acted « "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... | |
 | Joseph Tate - 1841 - 992 pages
...as the basis and foundation of government. Unanimously adopted, June 12, 1776. [9 St. Larg. 109.] 1. 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... | |
 | 1841 - 460 pages
...their Posterity, as the basis and foundation of Government. Unanimously adopted, June 12th, 1776.. 1. 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... | |
 | 1842 - 712 pages
...their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government, Unanimously adopted, June 12, 1776. " 1. 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... | |
 | Henry St. George Tucker - 1844 - 372 pages
...it is that we find it at the head of our Virginia Bill of rights in the following emphatic terms ; " 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 divest... | |
 | Lysander Spooner - 1845 - 168 pages
...inference whatever in regard to slavery. The rest of the Virginia constitution is eminently democratic. The bill of rights declares " that all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inner48 THE UNCONSTITUTIONALITY OF SLAVERY. ent rights," * * " namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty,... | |
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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... 
