 | Law - 1881
...equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights the 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 Virginia Bill was the work of George Mason, a man deeply versed in English parliamentary... | |
 | Arthur Gilman - United States - 1883 - 668 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. IL That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people ; that magistrates... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - Virginia - 1883 - 523 pages
...cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity." And these rights are named : they are " the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." All power, he says, is " vested in and consequently derived from the people;" and " magistrates... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - Virginia - 1883 - 523 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." And these rights are named : they are " the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1884
...- 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... | |
 | West Virginia. Legislature - Legislation - 1884 - 978 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...the means of acquiring and possessing property, and of pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. 2. All power is vested in, and consequently derived... | |
 | West Virginia. Department of Health - Public health - 1884
...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...the means of acquiring and possessing property, and of pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." The law we are considering is claimed to conflict... | |
 | Charles Henry Winston, Thomas Randolph Price, D. Lee Powell, John Meredith Strother, H. H. Harris, John P. McGuire, Rodes Massie, William Fayette Fox, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), Richard Ratcliffe Farr, John Lee Buchanan, George R. Pace - Education - 1884
...equally free and independent, and have certain inhere! rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or...posterity, namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, will the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.... | |
 | Illinois State Board of Health - Public health - 1885
...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...the means of acquiring and possessing property, and of pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." The law we are considering is claimed to conflict... | |
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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... 
