 | George E. Connor, Christopher W. Hammons - Law - 2008 - 849 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 I, Section i). Subsequent provisions of the Virginia Bill of Rights go on to declare... | |
 | Erik S. Root - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 268 pages
...from that fact that "individuals have 'certain inherent rights of which when they enter into a state of society they cannot by any compact deprive or divest...the means of acquiring and possessing property.'" 6 This is precisely what concerned the slave-owner: if all men possessed rights inalienably, then the... | |
 | Thomas Chaimowicz - Philosophy - 2011 - 151 pages
...striving for earthly welfare, as we find it put down in writing in the Bill of Virginia:63 "...the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." This form of liberalism had nothing to do with the liberality of the Whig Edmund Burke and... | |
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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... 
