| Jonathan Elliot - 1836 - 686 pages
...maxims, which tend to the prostration of republicanism. We have one, sir, that all men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity. We have a set of... | |
| 1836 - 550 pages
...maxims, which tend to the prostration of republicanism. We have one, sir, that all men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity. We have a set of... | |
| Thomas Price - 1837 - 36 pages
...THESE ARE LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS." — Declaration of Independence. " 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,... | |
| 1840 - 554 pages
...maxims, which tend to the prostration of republicanism. 0 We have one, sir, that all men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity. We have a set of... | |
| 1841 - 460 pages
...RIGHTS. A Declaration of Rights made by the Representatives of the good People of V IBOINIA, assembled in full and free Convention ; which rights do pertain...Posterity, as the basis and foundation of Government. Unanimously adopted, June 12th, 1776.. 1. That all men are by nature equally free and independent,... | |
| Joseph Tate - 1841 - 992 pages
...RIGHTS.* A Declaration of Rights made by the Representatives of the good people of Virginia, assembled in full and free Convention ; which rights do pertain...posterity, 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... | |
| 1842 - 712 pages
...and 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,...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,... | |
| 1843 - 434 pages
...Posterity, as the basis and foundation of Government. Unanimously adopted, June 12th, 1776. 1. TRAT 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,... | |
| 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,...have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society they cannot by any compact divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment... | |
| Lysander Spooner - 1845 - 168 pages
...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 inherent rights," * * " namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property,... | |
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