 | Klaus M. Girardet, Ulrich Nortmann - History - 2005 - 312 pages
...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...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." Überdies bedarf es eines Wortes der Erklärung, dass ausgerechnet der Verfassung einer Sklavenhaltergesellsch... | |
 | Mogens Herman Hansen - Comparative government - 2005 - 220 pages
...inherent rights of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact, deprive and divest their posterity, namely, the enjoyment of life...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.« En vaesentlig forskel mellem de to tekster er, at Virginias erkleering taler om lighed i... | |
 | Lawrence M. Friedman - Law - 2005 - 642 pages
...instrumental . . . view."1' The Virginia Declaration of Rights, in 1776, mentioned, as a fundamental right, "the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." This, as Harry Scheiber has pointed out, was not a "defensive" concept of property rights,... | |
 | Ronald J. Pestritto, Thomas G. West - History - 2005 - 318 pages
...nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights . . . namely, the enjoyment oflife and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtainmg happiness and safety" (Constitution of Virginia [1776], Declaration of Rights, Section 1,... | |
 | Alf J. Mapp - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 196 pages
...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." After about two weeks of debate, on June 12, 1776, the convention unanimously adopted Mason's document,... | |
 | John Witte - Law - 2006 - 513 pages
...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...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.23 world. See, eg, the views of Johannes Eisermann (1533), John Ponet (1556), Christopher Goodman... | |
 | Mark David Ledbetter - 379 pages
...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...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people... This is clearly echoed... | |
 | VD Mahajan - Political Science - 2006 - 936 pages
...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...property, and pursuing, and obtaining happiness and safety." 1 n spite of the historical significance of the theory of natural rights, there is a lot of... | |
 | George Allen - Political Science - 2006 - 214 pages
...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...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. "Article 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... 
