...born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and inalienable rights; among which maybe reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their...acquiring, possessing and protecting property; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness. II. It is the right as well as the duty of...

...men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and inalienable rights, which are the right of enjoying and defending their lives and...liberties, that of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property.'—It would be difficult to select words more precisely adapted to the abolition of slavery."—Pickering's...

...political power ? Not a syllable. Then again I find in the Bill of Eights of our own State : — " All men are born free and equal and have certain natural, essential and inalienable rights, among which may be reckoned tne right of enjoying and defending their lives and...

...secure the existence of the body politic; to * Constitution of Massachusetts, Part First, Art. I. All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalieuable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and...

...I. 3 Declaration of Rights of the Inhabitants of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Article 1. All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural,...acquiring, possessing and protecting property ; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness. 2. It is the right, as well as the duty,...

...perfect without its sanction. All men are born free and equal, says the Constitution of Massachusetts, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable...acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; in 6ne, that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness. Privileges, according to the same authority,...

...the sublime exordium of the Bill of Rights, " and have certain natural, essential, and vnalienable rights ; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties." " No subject," says the second article, " shall he hurt, molested, or restrained, in his person, liberty,...

...I. Jl Declaration of Sights of the Inhabitants of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Article 1. All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural,...acquiring, possessing, and protecting property ; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness. 2. It is the right, as well as the duty,...

...Convention of Massachusetts put this in the first Article of the Constitution of the State : " All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights." All distinction of gentte and simple, bond and free, perished out of Massachusetts. The same thought...

...State, which knows nothing of the complexion of the people, and which asserts [Art. I.] that " all men are born free and EQUAL, and have certain natural, essential and inalienable rights ; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and DEFENDING their lives and...