 | John Bigelow - Constitutions - 1848 - 538 pages
...Posterity, as the basis and foundation • of Government. Unanimously adopted, June IZth, 1776. SEC. 1. That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the. enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means... | |
 | 1848 - 544 pages
...foundation." This Declaration of Rights, bearing date June 12, 1776, announced among other things, " that all men are by nature equally free and independent,...enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1040 pages
...representatives of the people of Virginia, assembled in convention, adopted a bill of rights, as follows : " That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means... | |
 | 1827 - 452 pages
...to the government of this state, m the first section of the bill of rights, in the following words.' ''That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest tlirir posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means... | |
 | Constitutions, State - 1855 - 576 pages
...which rig/its do pertain to them and their posterity as the basis and foundation of government. 1. THAT all men are by nature equally free and independent,...enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - Law - 1858 - 678 pages
...adopted, known as the Virginia Declaration of Rights (1 Hen. 47), of which the first article reads, " That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity ; namely the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means... | |
 | Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - Slavery - 1862 - 438 pages
...their Posterity, as the basis and foundation of Government. Unanimously adopted June ~L2th, 1776. 1. That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means... | |
 | George Lunt - History - 1866 - 584 pages
...June 12, 1776, more than three weeks earlier. Of the latter instrument the first article reads : " That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means... | |
 | 1867 - 312 pages
...Convention, which riglds <lo pertain to them and their posterity as the basis and foundation of government. I. That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty^ with the means... | |
 | George Lunt - United States - 1867 - 536 pages
...June 12, 1776, more than three weeks earlier. Of the latter instrument the first article reads : " That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means... | |
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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... 
