...set me at ease, Turn Whig or Christian — what you please' ants, the people of these colonies, are by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English constitution, and the several colonial charters or compacts, entitled to the same — including the common "At length the court made...

...grievances and asserted the rights of the colonies. This document placed the rights of the colonies upon the laws of nature, the principles of the English Constitution, and the several charters or compacts. It declared, that, as the colonies were not, and from their local situation could not be, represented...

...liberties), DECLARE— Declaration of Rights. '• That the inhabitants of the English colonies it North America, by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English constitution, and tie several charters or compacts, have the following rights :— "Resolved, nem. con.,—1. That they...

...aforesaid, do in the first place, as Englishmen, their ancestors, in like cases have usually done, for asserting and vindicating their rights and liberties,...several charters or compacts, have the following RIGHTS : — DRAUGHT. 1. That the power of making laws for ordering or regulating the internal polity of these...

...had been violated, were passed. Among the resolutions •were the following : " Resolved unanimously, That the inhabitants of the English colonies in North...several charters or compacts, have the following rights: 1. They are entitled to life, liberty, and property ; and they have never ceded to any foreign power...

...Peyton Randolph, of Virginia, being president, these other resolutions were passed unanimously :—- " That the inhabitants of the English colonies in North...the English constitution, and the several charters and compacts, have the following rights :— " First, That they are entitled to life, liberty, and...

...rights, which, under various modifications, pervaded all our constitutional charters. It was declared, " that the inhabitants of the English colonies in North...nature, the principles of the English constitution, and their several charters or compacts, were entitled to life, liberty, and property; and that they had...

...published a declaration of rights, to which, they say, the English colonies of North America are entitled, by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English constitution, and their several charters or compacts. In the first of these are life, liberty and property, a right to...

...following, which has been repeated and re-enacted, in all possible forms, up to the present time: — " That the inhabitants of the English Colonies in North...the English Constitution, and the several charters and compacts, . . . are entitled to life, liberty, and property; and that they have never ceded, to...

...aforesaid, do. In the first place as Englishmen, their ancestors, in like cases have usually done for asserting and vindicating their rights and liberties,...in North America, by the Immutable laws of nature, tho principles of the English Constitution, and the several charters or compacts, have the following...