 | R. Stephen Humphreys - 1999 - 324 pages
...embodied in the Bill of Rights is in fact the Virginia Bill of Rights of 1776; see esp. Article I: "That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity [my italics]." Quoted from Henry Steele Commager, ed., Documents of American History, 7th ed. (New... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - 1999 - 212 pages
...their posterity as the basis and foundation of government. The first article of the aforesaid, asserts That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property,... | |
 | Guðmundur S. Alfreðsson, Asbjørn Eide - 1999 - 822 pages
...people of Virginia (12 June 1776) is squarely based on natural rights and contract theory. It declares: That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, divest or deprive their posterity ... The Declaration of Independence of the United States (1776) says:... | |
 | G. Alan Tarr - 2000 - 262 pages
...the proper, natural and safe Defense of a free Government"; and the Virginia Declaration of Rights that "all men are by nature equally free and independent,...they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity."63 Even provisions that might be enforceable sometimes included explanatory or justificatory... | |
 | Norman G. Kurland, Dawn K. Brohawn, Michael D. Greaney - 2004 - 262 pages
...prepared by CESJ under a grant by the William H. Donner Foundation, December 2002. www.cesj.org "All men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty,... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - 2004 - 574 pages
...1776 — before either the Declaration of Independence or the Massachusetts constitution — declared that "all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest... | |
 | Stephen M. Feldman - 2000 - 288 pages
...Bill of Rights, as its name suggests, explicitly protected certain specified natural rights: "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,... | |
 | Michael Novak - 2001 - 378 pages
...attributes without which human action is frustrated. The Virginia Declaration of Rights affirmed in 1776 that all men are by nature equally free and independent,...certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment... | |
 | Roger W. Wilkins - 2002 - 188 pages
...independent Virginia. The first sentence of his proposed Declaration of Rights for Virginians asserted "that all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity. ..." At the time he wrote these words,... | |
 | 2001 - 244 pages
...pertain to them, and theit posrerity, as the basis and foundation of government. 1. That all men ate by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enrer into a stare of sociery, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest theit posrerity; namely,... | |
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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 posterily ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with... 
