 | 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 - Virginia - 1813 - 322 pages
...which rights do pertain to them and their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government. I. That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing happiness and safety. II. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the... | |
 | Virginia, William Waller Hening - Law - 1823 - 462 pages
...nature equally free and in- inherent dependent, and have certain inherent rights, of'which, nehwwben they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by...the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. II.. That all power is vested in, and consequently de-... | |
 | Virginia, William Waller Hening - 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 and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently Power... | |
 | Isaac Candler - Southern States - 1824 - 530 pages
..." all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain rights of which they cannot deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring or possessing property." And yet if a citizen of that State wishes to do all in his power towards the... | |
 | Isaac Candler - Southern States - 1824 - 540 pages
..." all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain rights of which they cannot deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring or possessing property." And yet if a citizen of that State wishes to do all in his power towards the... | |
 | Henry Clay - 1827 - 200 pages
...the Government of this State, in the first section of the Bill of Rights, in the following words : " That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness." In pursuance of this principle, the committee find the following... | |
 | 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 and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety — That all power was vested in and derived from the people,... | |
 | Law - 1831 - 494 pages
...adopted in convention, January 15, 1830. Declaration of Rights. Art. 1. 'That all men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inherent rights,...the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.' 2. That political power resides in the people. 3. That... | |
 | Virginia. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1890 - 928 pages
...passing any laws violating these principles. The first article declares, ' that all men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inherent rights,...life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and fafStsBxg property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety ;' to deprive a citizen of any... | |
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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... 
