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gated as this Frame of Government directs, be amended or improved for the more effectual obtaining and fecuring the great end and defign of all government, herein before mentioned.

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INHABITANTS of the STATE of PENNSYLVANIA.

I. THAT all men are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural, inherent, and unalienable rights, amongst which are, the enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, poffeffing, and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and fafety.

II. That all men have a natural and unalienable right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own confciences and understanding and that no man ought,

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or of right can be compelled to attend any religious worship, or erect or fupport any place of worship, or maintain any ministry, contrary to, or against his own free will and confent: nor can any man who acknowledges the being of a God, be justly deprived or abridged of any civil right as a citizen, on account of his religious fentiments, or peculiar mode of religious worship and that no authority can or ought to be vested in, or affumed by any power whatever, that shall in any cafe interfere with, or in any manner controul, the right of confcience in the free exercife of religious worship.

III. That the people of this State have the fole, exclusive, and inherent right of governing and regulating the internal police of the fame.

IV. That all power being originally inherent in and confequently derived from, the people; therefore all officers of government, whether legislative or executive, are their trustees and fervants, and at all times accountable to them.

V. That government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and fecurity of the people, nation, or commu

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VI. That those who are employed in the legislative and executive business of the State may be restrained from oppreffion, the people have a right, at such periods as they may think proper, to reduce their public officers to a private ftation, and fupply the vacancies by certain and regular elections.

VII. That all elections ought to be free; and that all free men having a fufficient evident common intereft with, and attachment to the community, have a right to elect officers, or be elected into office.

VIII. That every member of fociety hath a right to be protected in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, and therefore is bound to contribute his proportion towards the expence of that protection, and yield his personal service when neceffary, or an equivalent thereto; but no part of a man's property can be justly taken from

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