All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; in fine, that... Niles' National Register - Page 1391827Full view - About this book
| Constitutions - 1782 - 188 pages
...Art. I. A LL men are born free and equal, and have certa'n £\ natural, eflential, and qnalienable rights ; among which may be reckoned the right of...enjoying and defending their lives and liberties ; that of acquiring, pofleffing, and protecting property ; in fine, that of feeking and obtaining their fafety... | |
| Constitutional law - 1783 - 492 pages
...COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, I. ALL men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, eflential, and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned...enjoying and defending their lives and liberties ; that of acquiring, poffeffing, and protecting property ; in fine, that of feeking and obtaining their fafety... | |
| Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1877 - 490 pages
...Massachusetts was ratified. These are a part of 'the words of that article : " All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and...enjoying and defending their lives and liberties." There are similar articles in the declaration of rights of New Hampshire and Pennsylvania. Soon after... | |
| William Winterbotham - History - 1795 - 514 pages
...OF RIGHTS. I. All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, effential and uoalienable rights ; among which may be reckoned the right of...enjoying and defending their lives and liberties ; that of acquiring, quiring, poffeffing and protecting property ; in fine, that of feelting and obtaining... | |
| Boston (Mass.). Common Council - Boston (Mass.) - 1822 - 148 pages
...RIGHTS, OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE Commonwealth oi ^Massachusetts. ARTICLE I. ALL men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and...may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending Equaiity of hirth their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing, andnshts, and protecting... | |
| Massachusetts - 1826 - 126 pages
...THE RIGHTS OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. ARTICLE I. ALL men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and...enjoying and defending their lives and liberties ; that of acquiring, posse.ssing, and protecting property ; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their safety... | |
| George McDowell Stroud - Slavery - 1827 - 192 pages
...prefixed to the constitution of the state, — the language of which article is, " all men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential and...enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing and protecting property ; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their safety... | |
| Henry Clay - 1827 - 200 pages
...— Massachusetts. " All men are free and equal, and have certain natural, essential and (inalienable rights : among which may be reckoned the right of...enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing and protecting property," Sic. And again, "No man, or corporation, or association... | |
| Enoch Lewis - Slave trade - 1828 - 390 pages
...passage of the Pennsylvania law. -f The article alluded to is the following: "All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights; among which msy be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives ana liberties; that of acquiring, possessing... | |
| Virginia. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1890 - 928 pages
...constituent part of her Constitution — and the first article of it affirms that " All men are born free and equal, 'and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights,' among which, is that of seeking and obtaining their happiness." The preamble sets forth " The end of the institution,... | |
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