 | Illinois State Board of Health - 1885 - 694 páginas
...constitution. Article 8 of our constitution, our bill of rights, section 1 (Acts of ±872-3, page 5), provides that "All men are by nature equally free and independent,...the means of acquiring and possessing property, and of pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." The law we are considering is claimed to conflict... | |
 | Alexander Andrew Mackay Irvine Baron Irvine of Lairg - 2003 - 391 páginas
...state legislatures began to enact Bills of Rights, expressing the common principle that: All men . . . have certain inherent rights, of which, when they...they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity.12 7R Pound, 'The Development of American Law and its Deviation from English Law' (1951)67... | |
 | Murray N. Rothbard - 2002 - 364 páginas
...of Rights: [A]ll men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent natural rights, of which, when they enter into a state of...they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity.6 Thus, we have seen (1) that no existing State has been immaculately conceived — quite... | |
 | Robert Darnton - 2003 - 232 páginas
...created equally free and independent, and have certain inherent natural rights . . . among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." Mason's wording runs exactly parallel to the famous phrase that Jefferson wrote into the Declaration... | |
 | Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller, Jeffrey Paul - 2004 - 468 páginas
...Littlefield, exercise of religion. Article 1 of Virginia's Declaration of Rights, adopted in 1776, is typical: "That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." Article 16 reads: "That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner... | |
 | F. Forrester Church - 2004 - 182 páginas
...rights do pertain to them and their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government. SECTION i That all men are by nature equally free and independent...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. . . . SECTION xv That no free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to... | |
 | William F. Jr Cox - 2004 - 558 páginas
...declaring the rights that serve as "the basis and foundation of government," the Bill first specifies: 1 . That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that magistrates... | |
 | Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller, Jeffrey Paul - 2005 - 428 páginas
...drafted the Virginia Declaration of Rights in 1776, he gave vent to much the same opinion, claiming that "all men are by nature equally free and independent...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety."9 John Adams echoed this opinion in the bill of rights that served as a preamble to the Massachusetts... | |
 | Murray Dry - 2004 - 324 páginas
...Virginia's Declaration of Rights. Section 1 : That all men are by nature equally free and independenl anil have certain inherent rights, of which, when they...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. Sec. 2 [sic]: That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that... | |
 | Lee Ward - 2004 - 478 páginas
...1. The scope of these natural rights statements ranged from the comprehensive treatment in Virginia, "That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...any compact, deprive or divest their posterity..." to the more pithy Maryland statement: "That all government of right originates from the people, is... | |
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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... 
