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The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal ... - Page 135
by Jonathan Elliot - 1836
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A History of the American People

Arthur Gilman - United States - 1883 - 734 pages
...and their posterity as the basis and foundation of government. L 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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Virginia: A History of the People

John Esten Cooke - Virginia - 1883 - 562 pages
...all coming time. The writer lays down the fundamental principle, 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." And these rights...
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Annual Report: 1884

West Virginia. Department of Health - Public health - 1884 - 40 pages
...our bill of rights, section I, (Acts of 1872-3, page 5) provides 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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The Amended Code of West Virginia: Containing All the Chapters of the Code ...

West Virginia - Law - 1884 - 994 pages
...the peace and dignity of the State." ARTICLE III. BILL OF RIGHTS. 1. 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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Annual report of the State Board of Health of Illinois. 1885

1885 - 696 pages
...our bill of rights, section 1 (Acts of 1872-8, page 5), provides 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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Annual Report of the Illinois State Board of Health, Volume 7

Illinois State Board of Health - Public health - 1885 - 692 pages
...our bill of rights, section 1 (Acts of ±872-3, page 5), provides 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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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of ..., Volume 25

West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals, Edgar P. Rucker - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 940 pages
...bill of rights, section 1 (see Acts of 1872-3, p. 5), provides that "all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state ot society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity, namely: The enjoyment...
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The American Decisions: Containing All the Cases of General Value ..., Volume 58

Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 896 pages
...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, and...certain inherent rights of which, when they enter into a state of society, they can not by any compact deprive or divest their posterity, namely, the enjoyment...
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Documents Illustrative of American History, 1606-1863

Howard Willis Preston - History - 1886 - 336 pages
...and their posterity as the basis and foundation of government. I. 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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A Treatise on the Limitations of Police Power in the United States ...

Christopher Gustavus Tiedeman - Police power - 1886 - 722 pages
...them of the enjoyment of liberty without charge or conviction of crime? The bill of rights declares that ' all men are, by nature, free and independent, and have certain inherent and inalienable rights — among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.' This language...
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