 | 1885 - 696 pages
...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...the means of acquiring and possessing property, and of pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." The law we are considering is claimed to conflict... | |
 | West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals, Edgar P. Rucker - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 940 pages
...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...the means of acquiring and possessing property, and of possessing and obtaining happiness and safety." The law which we are considering is claimed to conffict... | |
 | Richard Faber - Humanism - 2003 - 298 pages
...Art. l heißt es: „That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain innerem rights, of which, when they enter into a state of...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety". Die Menschenrechtserklärung diente als Vorbild für weitere Erklärungen in anderen nordamerikanischen... | |
 | Forrest Church - History - 2003 - 196 pages
...Virginians, adopted the month before: "All men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a...by any compact deprive or divest their posterity." To Mason, these rights were life, liberty, property, the pursuit of happiness and the ability to secure... | |
 | Alexander Andrew Mackay Irvine Baron Irvine of Lairg - Law - 2003 - 391 pages
...legislatures began to enact Bills of Rights, expressing the common principle that: All men . . . have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a...they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity.12 7R Pound, 'The Development of American Law and its Deviation from English Law' (1951)67... | |
 | Murray N. Rothbard - Business & Economics - 2002 - 364 pages
...of Rights: [A]ll men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent natural rights, of which, when they enter into a state of...they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity.6 Thus, we have seen (1) that no existing State has been immaculately conceived — quite... | |
 | Robert Darnton - History - 2003 - 232 pages
...created equally free and independent, and have certain inherent natural rights . . . among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." Mason's wording runs exactly parallel to the famous phrase that Jefferson wrote into the Declaration... | |
 | F. Forrester Church - History - 2004 - 182 pages
...foundation of government. SECTION i That all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. . . . SECTION xv That no free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to... | |
 | Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller, Jeffrey Paul - Law - 2005 - 428 pages
...the same opinion, claiming that "all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety."9 John Adams echoed this opinion in the bill of rights that served as a preamble to the Massachusetts... | |
 | William F. Jr Cox - Education - 2004 - 558 pages
...Bill first specifies: 1 . That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights of which, when they enter into a state...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that magistrates... | |
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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... 
