 | 1867 - 312 páginas
...representatives of the good people of Virginia, assembled in full and free 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, and have certain inherent rights, of which,... | |
 | George Wythe Munford - 1867 - 60 páginas
...accused of any offence — a right which the great men of Virginia and of every other state declared to " pertain to them and their posterity as the basis and foundation of government." What would such men as Marshall, and Wythe, and Eoane have said, if they had been asked by a committee... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1868 - 490 páginas
...good people of Virginia, assembled in full and free convention. These are the rights which they said do pertain to them and their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government: "All men are by nature equally free, and have inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state... | |
 | John Brown Dillon - 1871 - 148 páginas
...Convention assembled, passed a Bill of Eights, in which the following declarations appear:— 1st.—" That all men are by nature equally free and Independent,...they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by compact, deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means... | |
 | John Brown Dillon - 1871 - 156 páginas
...Convention assembled, passed a Bill of Rights, in which the following declarations appear : — 1st. — " That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by compact, deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means... | |
 | Richard Frothingham - 1872 - 676 páginas
...are born equally free and independent, and have certain inherent natural rights." This was changed to "That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights." The preamble to the Constitution states that it was adopted " in compliance with the recommendation... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1872 - 836 páginas
...been made by the representatives of the good people of Virginia, and it is declared that these rights do pertain to them and their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government." And we have the legislative construction of the bill of rights, in the act of the 24th January 1799,... | |
 | 1921 - 510 páginas
...assurance, as near as may be, should be in the spirit of the Founders of governments in America, viz: "That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...of society, they cannot by any compact, deprive or divert their posterity, namely the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the- means of acquiring and... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1875 - 588 páginas
...given above, corres|>onds to the first article from the Virginia Declaration, which follows: — " That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when (Ley enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity... | |
 | 1875 - 788 páginas
...Constitution, to make a solemn declaration of the rights of the good people of Virginia, " which rights do pertain to them and their posterity as the basis and foundation of government." And we find that by the eighth section of that declaration it is provided as follows : — •• That... | |
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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 S09 ^ to deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty,... 
