 Article I. Declaration of Rights. That the general great and essential principles of liberty and free government may be recognized and established — We declare Sec. 1. That all freemen when they form a social compact, are equal in rights...  Connecticut in Transition, 1775-1818 - Page 384by Richard Joseph Purcell - 1918 - 471 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Constitutions - 1828 - 494 pages
...liherty and free government may he recognized and estahlished, we declare: § 1. That all freemen, when they form a social compact, are equal in rights;...no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive, separate, puhlic emoluments or privileges, from the community, hut in consideration of puhlic services.... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court, George Noble Stewart - Law reports, digests, etc - 1835 - 526 pages
...constitutional principle. By the first section of the declaration of rights, it is declared, "that all freemen, when they form a social compact, are equal in rights;...that no man or set of men, are entitled to exclusive separate public emoluments or privileges, but in consideration of public services." This declaration... | |
 | Virginia. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1890 - 928 pages
...free Government may be recognized and 'c.ilali!is!inl — we (the people of Connecticut) declare — That all men, when they form a social compact, are equal in rights." What rights ? Rights antecedent to the compact, I presume. " And that no man, or set of men, are entitled... | |
 | Alabama, John Gaston Aikin - Law - 1833 - 630 pages
...established, we declare : SEC. 1. That all freemen, when they form a social compact, are AH freemen equal in rights ; and that no man or set of men are entitled to exclu- are equal' give, separate public emoluments or privileges, but in consideration of public services.... | |
 | 1834 - 446 pages
...the most important section in the declaration of the rights of the citizen, says, that all freemen, when they form a social compact, are equal in rights:...no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive, separate public emoluments or privileges fiom community, but in consideration of public services."... | |
 | Philip Phillips - Law reports, digests, etc - 1840 - 412 pages
...and established, we declare : SEC. 1. That all freemen, when they form a social compact, All freemen are equal in rights ; and that no man or set of men are entitled are equalto exclusive, separate public emoluments or privileges, but in consideration of public services,... | |
 | United States - 1842 - 712 pages
...plantations, do by these presents assent to and ratify the said constitution." CONSTITUTION OF CONNECTICUT. " That all men, when they form a social compact, are equal in rights ; and that no men, or set of men, are entitled to exclu1842.] fiive public emoluments or privileges from CONSTITUTION... | |
 | Constitutions - 1843 - 434 pages
...essential principles of liberty and free government may be recognised and established, we declare : §1; That all men, when they form a social compact, are equal in lights : asd •>>«- nr c!DL<!<i2>r=s :•: pcrr « 2. Thai tl TK>i 5 4. Xo ofwoiriup. 55. ETCTT O&KB... | |
 | William Whewell - Ethics - 1845 - 440 pages
...held of them for the common interest of the whole Society." The Constitution of Connecticut declares that " all men, when they form a social Compact, are equal in Rights ;" and the Constitutions of some of the other States have like expressions. Now here it is plain that the... | |
 | Dudley S. Jennings - Mississippi - 1847 - 334 pages
..." WHEREAS, In the first article of the constitution of Mississippi, H is declared that all freemen, when they form a social compact, are equal in rights,...that no man or set of men are entitled to exclusive, separate, public emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration ot' public services,... | |
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