 | 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...defending their lives and liberties ; that of acquiring, pofleffing, and protecting property ; in fine, that of feeking and obtaining their fafety and happinefs.... | |
 | 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...defending their lives and liberties ; that of acquiring, poffeffing, and protecting property ; in fine, that of feeking and obtaining their fafety and happinefs.... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1877 - 490 pages
...ratified. These are a part of 'the words of that article : " All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights,...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...defending their lives and liberties ; that of acquiring, quiring, poffeffing and protecting property ; in fine, that of feelting and obtaining their fafety... | |
 | Constitutions - 1804 - 372 pages
...and equal, and have certain nataralleffentia!, and unalienable rights ; among which may be reckoaed the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties ; that of acquiring, poffefling, and protecting property ; in fine, that of feeking and obtaining their iafety and happinefs.... | |
 | 1813 - 516 pages
...Mossactnuctts, An. I. All men are born free and equal, and have certain natu. ral, essential, and unaltennble rights : among which may be reckoned the right of .enjoying and defending their lives and liberties ; tint of acquiring, pout-inn;, and protecting property ; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their... | |
 | Boston (Mass.). Common Council - Boston (Mass.) - 1822 - 148 pages
...INHABITANTS OF THE Commonwealth oi ^Massachusetts. ARTICLE I. ALL men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights;...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
...INHABITANTS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. ARTICLE I. ALL men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights...seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness. II. It is the right, as well as the duty, of all men in society, publickly, and at stated seasons,... | |
 | George McDowell Stroud - Slavery - 1827 - 190 pages
...constitution of the state,—the language of which article is, " all men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential and unalienable rights,...seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness." This declaration, embodied as it was in the constitution, became at once the paramount law of the land,—and... | |
 | 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...of acquiring, possessing and protecting property," Sic. And again, "No man, or corporation, or association of men, have any other title to obtain advantages,... | |
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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... 
