 | John Wilson Campbell, Moses Hoge - 1813 - 322 страници
...convention; which rights do pertain to them and their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government. I. That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means... | |
 | Henry Clay - 1827 - 200 страници
...the Government of this State, in the first section of the Bill of Rights, in the following words : " That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means... | |
 | Virginia. Constitutional Convention - 1830 - 932 страници
...to freemen, and formidable to tyrants only." The first article of tin- Bill of Rights reads thus : " That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity, namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty with the means... | |
 | Virginia - 1833 - 604 страници
...their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government. (Unanimously adopted, June 12th, 1776.) 1. That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterily ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means... | |
 | John D. Paxton - 1833 - 228 страници
...been or are more read among us. It was sanctioned by our national and state legislatures ;* acted « "That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity: namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means... | |
 | 1841 - 460 страници
...their Posterity, as the basis and foundation of Government. Unanimously adopted, June 12th, 1776.. 1. That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means... | |
 | Joseph Tate - 1841 - 992 страници
...as the basis and foundation of government. Unanimously adopted, June 12, 1776. [9 St. Larg. 109.] 1. That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means... | |
 | 1842 - 712 страници
...their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government, Unanimously adopted, June 12, 1776. " 1. That all men are, by nature, equally free and independent,...enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means... | |
 | Henry St. George Tucker - 1844 - 372 страници
...it is that we find it at the head of our Virginia Bill of rights in the following emphatic terms ; " That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...they enter into a state of society they cannot by any compact divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty with the means of acquiring... | |
 | Jonathan French - 1847 - 506 страници
...their Posterity, as the basis and foundation of Government. Unanimously adopted, June 12/A, 1776. 1 . That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means... | |
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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... 
