 | 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, Moses Hoge - 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,...of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing happiness and safety. II. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that... | |
 | 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...possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. II.. That all power is vested in, and consequently de- Powerof rived from, the people;... | |
 | 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...possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently Power of tinderived from, the people;... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety — That all power was vested in and derived from the people, that magistrates were their... | |
 | Law - 1831 - 494 pages
...of rights of Virginia, particularly, ranks in the same class, and secures on the same footing, " the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and obtaining happiness and safety." Surely, this court will not give its sanction to a distinction between... | |
 | Virginia. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1890 - 928 pages
...common to every human being. Take the definition of the first article of the Bill of Rights : " All men are by nature equally free and independent, and have...; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the mean* of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." it... | |
 | Virginia. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1830 - 932 pages
...nature tree and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state ef society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest...life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and posstssing 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... 
