| 1881 - 1014 páginas
...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...property and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." The Virginia Bill was the work of George Mason, a man deeply versed in English parliamentary... | |
| Ohio State Bar Association - 1908 - 212 páginas
...of rights," when they declared, among other things, to'be the "basis and foundation of government." "That all power is vested in and consequently derived from the people. "That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection and security of the people;... | |
| Arthur Gilman - 1883 - 734 páginas
...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 the...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 - 1883 - 594 páginas
...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 - 1883 - 578 páginas
...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 and possessing prop erty, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." All power, he says, is " vested in and... | |
| George Bancroft - 1884 - 480 páginas
...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 the...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. " All power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people ; magistrates are their... | |
| John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond - 1884 - 614 páginas
...independent, and have certain inherent rights of which they cannot by any compact deprive their posterity," namely, " the enjoyment of life and liberty, with...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." All the powers of society are " vested in, and consequently derived from, the people ; " and... | |
| West Virginia - 1884 - 994 páginas
...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 the means of acquiring and possessing property, and of pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. 2. All power is vested in, and consequently derived... | |
| 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 - 1884 - 1242 páginas
...by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity, namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, will the means of acquiring and possessing property, and...pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. 2. That this state shall ever remain a member of the United States of America, and that the people thereof... | |
| West Virginia. Department of Health - 1884 - 40 páginas
...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 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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