 | Joseph Tate - Law - 1841 - 992 pages
...government. Unanimously adopted, June 12, 1776. [9 St. Larg. 109.] 1. 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... | |
 | Presidents - 1841 - 460 pages
...foundation of Government. Unanimously adopted, June 12th, 1776.. 1. 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... | |
 | United States - 1842 - 712 pages
...foundation of government, Unanimously adopted, June 12, 1776. " 1. 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... | |
 | Henry St. George Tucker - Natural law - 1844 - 372 pages
...our Virginia Bill of rights in the following emphatic terms ; " 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 divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1845 - 552 pages
...Gentlemen strongly urge that its adoption will be a mighty benefit to us ; but, sir, I am made of such incredulous materials, that assertions and declarations...certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter mto society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity. We have a set of maxims... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1853 - 884 pages
...the law to be unconstitutional, because of the clause in the Virginia bill of rights, which declares "that all men are by nature free and independent,...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... | |
 | Jonathan French - United States - 1847 - 506 pages
...foundation of Government. Unanimously adopted, June 12/A, 1776. 1 . 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... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1004 pages
...assembled in convention, adopted a bill of rights, as follows : "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... | |
 | John Bigelow - Constitutions - 1848 - 538 pages
...• of Government. Unanimously adopted, June IZth, 1776. SEC. 1. 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... | |
 | 1848 - 544 pages
...Rights, bearing date June 12, 1776, announced among other things, " 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... | |
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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... 
