| Abram English Brown - 1891 - 202 páginas
...by some families until 1780, when the Constitution adopted by the State declared in Article I, " All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential and inalienable rights," etc. When the articles of the Constitution were acted upon by the town, there... | |
| James Ford Rhodes - 1892 - 538 páginas
...Massachusetts adopted a new constitution, and in the declaration of rights it was asserted : " All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and inalienable rights." When the convention came to discuss how many of the old laws should remain in... | |
| William Root Bliss - 1894 - 288 páginas
...sold to him was answered by the Declaration of Rights embodied in the constitution of the State: "All men are born free and equal and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights." The court decided that slavery had been abolished in Massachusetts by the adoption of its constitution... | |
| American Bar Association - 1891 - 1052 páginas
...right to labor and to enjoy the fruits of his labor. We repeat, as self-evident truths, 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... | |
| New York (State). Constitutional Convention - 1894 - 1326 páginas
...jury, being fltst paid. OS tendered to the parties entitled to such compensation. 1. MASSACHUSETTS. All nting to any corporation, association or individual the right to lay unallenable rights, among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their llvtee end... | |
| 1896 - 876 páginas
...of contract, ;is there is concerning the liberty of the press. The constitution declares thut "all men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and nnalieuable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and... | |
| George Sheldon - 1896 - 750 páginas
...retaining or abolishing negro slavery. Article First of the Bill of Rights, however, declares : " 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... | |
| Wilbur Henry Siebert - 1898 - 570 páginas
...slavery ; happily it had inserted in the declaration of o 17 rights prefixed to its constitution: "All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential and inalienable rights." l This clause received at a later time strict interpretation at the bar of the... | |
| Delmar Rial Lowell - 1899 - 1036 páginas
...constitution of Muss. He took a leading part and caused to be placed in the constitution the clause: " 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... | |
| Joseph Warren Keifer - 1900 - 386 páginas
...Massachusetts provided for the abolition of slavery in 1780 by constitutional provision declaring that : " All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights," etc., by which declaration its highest judicial tribunal struck the shackles at once from every slave... | |
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