 | Peter Wallenstein - History - 2007 - 508 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. Section 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the People; that magistrates... | |
 | Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert - History - 2007 - 1236 pages
...equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. safety. SEC. 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that magistrates... | |
 | Matthew S. Holland - Religion - 2007 - 340 pages
...rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; among which are, the ENJOYMENT OF LIFE AND LIBERTY, with the means of acquiring...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. 2. That all power is vested in, and consequetly derived from, the People; that magistrates... | |
 | Lynn Hunt - History - 2007 - 284 pages
...by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights," which were defined as "the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." More important still, the Virginia Declaration went on to offer a list of specific rights... | |
 | Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom - History - 2007 - 248 pages
...Jefferson's Declaration: "that all men . . . 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."6 The Virginia statement on rights was copied almost verbatim into the revolutionary Pennsylvania... | |
 | Michael Warren - History - 2007 - 235 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...their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and Other states drafted and ratified very similar constitutional provisions. The states clearly embraced... | |
 | Kevin Raeder Gutzman - History - 2007 - 256 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!.]" Robert A. Rutland, George Mason: Reluctant Statesman, 54. Rutland's discussion of the Declaration's... | |
 | John Witte - History - 2007 - 25 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." The Declaration went on to specify the rights of the people to vote and to run for office,... | |
 | Reto M. Hilty, Thomas Jaeger, Volker Kitz - Law - 2008 - 230 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. Unabhängigkeitserklärung der USA v. 4.7.1776: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that... | |
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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... 
