 All men are born free and equal and have certain natural, essential and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing and protecting property; in fine, that...  Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts - Page 4by Massachusetts - 1918 - 74 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Constitutions - 1782 - 188 pages
...Art. I. A LL men are born free and equal, and have certa'n £\ natural, eflential, and qnalienable rights ; among which may be reckoned the right of...defending their lives and liberties ; that of acquiring, pofleffing, and protecting property ; in fine, that of feeking and obtaining their fafety and happinefs.... | |
 | Constitutional law - 1783 - 492 pages
...COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, I. ALL men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, eflential, and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned...defending their lives and liberties ; that of acquiring, poffeffing, and protecting property ; in fine, that of feeking and obtaining their fafety and happinefs.... | |
 | 698 pages
...oliflruft A others in their religious worfhip." The fir ft fentjmer.t in the article above recited is, that it is the right, as "well as the duty of all men in fociety, to worfli'p God. The idea intended to be conveyed, I take clearly to b« this ; that it being... | |
 | Gabriel Bonnot de Mably - Constitutional history - 1785 - 296 pages
...of the thirty-feventh article of the conftitution of New York, be not ' intolerance fufficient ! " It is the right as well as the duty of all men in fo" ciety, publicly, and at ftated feafons, to worfhip " the SUPREME BEING, the GREAT CREATOR, and... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1877 - 490 pages
...ratified. These are a part of 'the words of that article : " All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights,...enjoying and defending their lives and liberties." There are similar articles in the declaration of rights of New Hampshire and Pennsylvania. Soon after... | |
 | William Winterbotham - History - 1795 - 514 pages
...OF RIGHTS. I. All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, effential and uoalienable rights ; among which may be reckoned the right of...defending their lives and liberties ; that of acquiring, quiring, poffeffing and protecting property ; in fine, that of feelting and obtaining their fafety... | |
 | William Winterbotham - America - 1796 - 580 pages
...poffcffing and protecting property; in fine, that of feekmg and obtaining their fafety and happmefs. II. It is the right as well as the duty of all men in fociety, publicly, and at dated feafons, to worfhip the Supreme Being, the Great Creator and Prefervcr... | |
 | Booksellers and bookselling - 1800 - 306 pages
...pofleffing, and protefling property ; in fine, that of ieeking and .obtaining their fafety and happinefs. II. It is the right, as well as the duty, of all men in fociety, publicly, and at ftated feafons, to wor(hip the Supreme Being, the great Creator and Preferver... | |
 | Readers - 1803 - 250 pages
...equal, and have certain natural, effential, and unalien.ibb rights; among which may be reckoned ihe right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, poffdTutg, and protecting property; in fine, that of feeking and obtaining their fafety and happinefs.... | |
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