...(entworfen von George Mason, abgedr.: Spaeth/Smith, S. 171-173 = Hall/Wiecek/Finkelman, S. 69 f.), Section 1 („That all men are by nature equally free and...acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaming happmess and safety"); Bill for establishing religious freedom v. 1785/86 für Virginia, im...

...ll, p. 518, are found in the Virginia Declaration of 1776 which states: "all men are by value equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights;...of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divert their posterity" and the French Declaration of the Rights of Men and the Citizen (1789); see...

...the proper understanding of "inalienable" rights; as the Virginia Declaration of Rights put it, men "have certain inherent rights, of which, when they...by any compact deprive or divest their posterity. . . ."' The only reason for dwelling on Locke in this fashion is that it becomes increasingly clear...

...In it, the people of Virginia, through their representatives assembled at a convention, proclaimed , the legislative shall transgress this fundamental rule of society, and, either by ambitio 14 The Encyclopaedia Britannica (Macropaedia), volume VIII, 15th edn, 1977, refers to two earlier codifications:...

...a Bill of Rights, using the following considerations: We have one, Sir, That all men are hy nature free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into society, they cannot hy any compact deprive or divest their posterity. We have a set of maxims of the...

...Declaration was George Mason's Declaration of Rights for Virginians, adopted the month before: "All men are by nature equally free and independent, and have...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...

...state legislatures began to enact Bills of Rights, expressing the common principle that: All men . . . have certain inherent rights, of which, when they...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...

...of Rights: [A]ll men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent natural rights, of which, when they enter into a state of...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...

...Menschenrechten im modernen Sinn war die Virginia Bill of Rights vom 12. Juni 177643. In ihrem Art. l heißt es: „That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain innerem rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive...

...like an excerpt from the central passages of Locke's 'Two Treatises of Civil Government'. It provides: That all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent tights, of which, when they enter into a state of sociery, they caunor, by any compact, deprive...