 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1859
...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. All power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people ; magistrates are their trustees... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - United States - 1859 - 683 pages
...natural rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive 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. [The same as the original draught of George Mason, except that the clause " by God and Nature"... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1860
...All men are by nature equally free, and have 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. " All power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; magistrates are their... | |
 | Charles Wilkins Webber - History - 1861 - 416 pages
...rights, of which they can not, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity.0 Among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means, of...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. 2. That all power is, by Qod and nature, vested in, and consequently derived from the people... | |
 | Military art and science - 1861
...they enter into a (state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive their posterity ; viz., the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and obtaining happiness and safety." And the 16th article" in the Bill of Bights declares ; " That no free... | |
 | Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - Slavery - 1862 - 418 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. 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people ; that magistrates... | |
 | Virginia - Law - 1862 - 36 pages
...equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they cuter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, th» enjoyment of life and liberty, with tUe means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing... | |
 | Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - 1863
...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, 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that magistrates... | |
 | Ezra Champion Seaman - Constitutional history - 1863 - 287 pages
...equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a •fcite of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people ; that magistrates... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 37 pages
...All men are by nature equally free, and have 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." See also the Mecklenburg Declaration. The original draft of the Declaration of American Independence... | |
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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... 
