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... The Central Law Journal - Page 621921Full view - About this book
| Virginia - Law - 1803 - 1026 pages
...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 - Virginia - 1813 - 322 pages
...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...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 - Law - 1823 - 462 pages
...of'which, nehwwben they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and...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 - Law - 1821 - 674 pages
...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... | |
| Henry Clay - 1827 - 200 pages
...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...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 - United States - 1828 - 562 pages
...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... | |
| Law - 1831 - 494 pages
...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 - Constitutional conventions - 1830 - 932 pages
...rights, of which, when they enter into a state ef society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and posstssing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety ;' to deprive a citizen of any... | |
| Virginia. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1890 - 928 pages
...of society, they cannot, by »ny compact, deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the nijorlnent of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing arid obtaining happiness and safety. " That all power is vested in. and consequent!}' derived from,... | |
| John D. Paxton - History - 1833 - 232 pages
...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...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." — Article 1, Bill of Rights of Virginia. Most of the states, either in their constitutions... | |
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