 | Lance Banning - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 241 pages
...which rights 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... | |
 | Herbert J. Storing - Political Science - 1995 - 469 pages
..."oughts" and general principles. The Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776 provides, for example: "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... | |
 | V. Norskov Olsen - Religion - 1996 - 124 pages
...constitutions beginning with Virginia and Massachusetts. Constitution of Virginia - 1776: "Section 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... | |
 | Karl-Peter Sommermann - Constitutional law - 1997 - 592 pages
...Declaration of Rights« von Juni 1776426 erklärt zur Grundlage jeder staatlichen Ordnung (Ziff. 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... | |
 | Gary L. McDowell, Sharon L. Noble - Law - 1997 - 325 pages
...draft in Williamsburg; while in Philadelphia, Jefferson read Mason's first article and liked its ring: 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... | |
 | James Oakes - History - 1998 - 246 pages
...In the same year Vir66 ginia enacted a constitution whose Bill of Rights opened with the declaration "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."60 Mississippi's 1832 constitution announced that "all... | |
 | Andy Williams - United States - 1998 - 210 pages
...rights do pertain to them and their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government. Section 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... | |
 | R. Stephen Humphreys - History - 2001 - 297 pages
...ultimately embodied in the Bill of Rights is in fact the Virginia Bill of Rights of 1776; see esp. Article 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 [my italics]." Quoted from Henry Steele Commager, ed., Documents... | |
 | John I. Patrick, John J. Patrick, Gerald P. Long - Political Science - 1999 - 335 pages
...Convention, which rights to 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... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - Political Science - 1999 - 167 pages
...their posterity as the basis and foundation of government. The first article of the aforesaid, asserts That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring... | |
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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... 
