| Mogens Herman Hansen - 2005 - 220 pages
...Uafhaengighedserkleeringen af 4.7. 1776 er utvivlsomt Virginias rettighedserklaering af 12.6.1776, Section i: »that all men are by nature equally free and independent...state of society, they cannot by any compact, deprive and divest their posterity, namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring... | |
| Ronald J. Pestritto, Thomas G. West - 2005 - 318 pages
...& McH., 535, 565-66 (Md. 1797) (emphasis added). 40. Corfield v. Coryell, 6 Fed. Cas. 55 1-52. 41. "That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights . . . namely, the enjoyment oflife and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property,... | |
| Timothy Rasinski, Lorraine Griffith - 2005 - 112 pages
...Civil War Collected by Douglas Vicharelli and Timothy Rasinski A Reader's Theater for 2 to 18 voices That all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights. — Virginia Declaration of Rights, June 1776 We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture - 2005 - 160 pages
...equally free and independent and have certain inherent and natural rights . . . among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing See generally Turley, Presidential Records and Popular Government, supra note 3. John Locke, Second... | |
| Frederick M. Abbott - 2006 - 416 pages
...below at 1.3. 4. See, eg, the language of the Virginia Bill of Rights of 12 June 1776:"... all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights." 5. Universal Declaration of Human Rights of December 10, 1948, GAOR 3rd session, res. 219A. 6. Emphasis... | |
| Elizabeth Price Foley - 2008 - 303 pages
...individual rights. For example, the Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776 declared in its first article that "all men are by nature equally free and independent...their posterity, namely, the enjoyment of life and l1berty, w1th the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness... | |
| Andreas Etges, Ursula Lehmkuhl - 2006 - 188 pages
...uncovered the source of all these rights ascertained: nature. Natural law not only conferred to the people "certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter...by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity". It also proved "[t]hat all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people".30 With no... | |
| Eva Sheppard Wolf - 2006 - 310 pages
...Pendleton's suggestion, the new first item in the Declaration of Rights as adopted by the convention began, "That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when 3. Brown, Good Wives, 215, 219; St. George Tucker, Dissertation on Slavery, 70; Patterson, Slavery... | |
| Timm Beichelt, Bożena Chołuj, Gerard Rowe, Hans-Jürgen Wagener - 2006 - 437 pages
...kam. Am Anfang der Virginia Bill of Rights von 1776 steht der Gedanke der natürlichen Menschenrechte: 'That all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights' (sec. 1). Zu den Menschenrechten gehören 'the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring... | |
| Julia Jonas - 2006 - 394 pages
...wurden, für die etwa die ,Virginia Bill of Rights' galt, auch wenn in ihrem l . Absatz zu lesen ist, „that all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights". Die Idee der Gerechtigkeit und der Universalität, die den Menschenrechten innewohnt - auch wenn diese... | |
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