...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,...obtaining happiness and safety. "2. That all power is invested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that magistrates are their trustees and servants,...

...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,...into a state of society they cannot by any compact divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty with the means of acquiring and...

...unconstitutional, because of the clause in the Virginia bill of rights, which declares "that all men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inherent rights...of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing Tux, 1853. ] Mutin et al. Ez parte. and obtaining happiness and safety." And of this, he said: "to...

...representatives of the people of Virginia, assembled in convention, adopted a bill of rights, as follows : " That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. " That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people ; that magistrates...

...foundation." This Declaration of Rights, bearing date June 12, 1776, announced among other things, " that all men are by nature equally free and independent,...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." Upon " the basis and foundation" of this Declaration of Rights, the convention proceeded to...

...people of Virginia, assembled in convention, adopted a bill of rights, as follows : "That all men are-by nature equally free and independent, and have certain...their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberly, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pu: suing aud obtaining happiness...

...to the government of this state, m the first section of the bill of rights, in the following words.' ''That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest tlirir posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing...

...hand as the Declaration of the American Congress, July 4, 1774. The Virginia Declaration declares, 1 ; " That all men are by nature equally free and...which, when they enter into a state of society, they caunot by any compact deprive or divest posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with...

...men are by nature equally free and independent, and hare certain inherent rights, of which, when tfwy enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any...and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happinfM and safety. 3. That all power is vested in. and consequently derived from the people ; that...

...nature equally free and independent, and have certain INHERENT RIGHTS, of which, when they enter into society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest...of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing happiness and safety." Virginia Bili qf lit'g/its, Art. I. FIRST ENGLISH ILLUSTRATED EDITION. iKUtl)...