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... Slavery in America - Página 319editado por - 1837Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Virginia - 1803 - 1026 páginas
...they enter into a ftate of fbciety, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divert their pofterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and poilellirg property, and pnrfuing and obtaining happinefs and fafety.-^II. THAT all power is veiled... | |
| John Wilson Campbell, Moses Hoge - 1813 - 322 páginas
...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...of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing happiness and safety. II. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that... | |
| Virginia, William Waller Hening - 1823 - 462 páginas
...nature equally free and in- inherent dependent, and have certain inherent rights, of'which, nehwwben they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. II.. That all power is vested in, and consequently de- Powerof rived from, the people; that... | |
| Virginia, Virginia. General Assembly - 1821 - 674 páginas
...a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; name-' ly, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently Power of tinderived from, the people; that... | |
| Isaac Candler - 1824 - 540 páginas
..." all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain rights of which they cannot deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring or possessing property." And yet if a citizen of that State wishes to do all in his power towards the... | |
| Isaac Candler - 1824 - 530 páginas
..." all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain rights of which they cannot deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring or possessing property." And yet if a citizen of that State wishes to do all in his power towards the... | |
| Henry Clay - 1827 - 200 páginas
...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...possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness." In pursuance of this principle, the committee find the following provision in the fourth section of... | |
| Timothy Pitkin - 1828 - 562 páginas
...which they could not, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity ; that among these was the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety — That all power was vested in and derived from the people, that magistrates were their trustees... | |
| 1831 - 494 páginas
...of rights of Virginia, particularly, ranks in the same class, and secures on the same footing, " the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and obtaining happiness and safety." Surely, this court will not give its sanction to a distinction between... | |
| Virginia. Constitutional Convention - 1890 - 928 páginas
...passing any laws violating these principles. The first article declares, ' that all men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inherent rights,...life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and fafStsBxg property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety ;' to deprive a citizen of any... | |
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