 | Harry V. Jaffa - 2004 - 574 σελίδες
...the first, it is affirmed That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain rights, of which, when they enter into a state of...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. By the second it is said that All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential,... | |
 | G. Alan Tarr - 2000 - 262 σελίδες
...the proper, natural and safe Defense of a free Government"; and the Virginia Declaration of Rights that "all men are by nature equally free and independent,...they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity."63 Even provisions that might be enforceable sometimes included explanatory or justificatory... | |
 | Norman G. Kurland, Dawn K. Brohawn, Michael D. Greaney - 2004 - 262 σελίδες
...www.cesj.org "All men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." George Mason ( " Father of the American Bill of Rights") Article 1 of the Virginia Declaration... | |
 | Willi Paul Adams - 2001 - 406 σελίδες
...which rights do perta1n to them and their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government. [2] 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. Declaration of Independence,... | |
 | Paul Finkelman - 2002 - 488 σελίδες
...Virginia Declaration was carefully designed to finesse the issue of slavery. The document declared that: All men are by nature equally free and independent,...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.34 In his first draft of this clause George Mason had written that all men were "born equally... | |
 | Thomas G. West - 1997 - 244 σελίδες
...was a fundamental natural right. The first article of the 1776 Virginia Declaration of Rights reads: That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.6 The constitutions of several other states either quoted or paraphrased the Virginia language,... | |
 | Michael Novak - 2001 - 378 σελίδες
...by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. Flowing from these "natural rights" are the "civil" and "political" rights, specifying the... | |
 | Wolfgang Fikentscher, Achim R. Fochem - 2002 - 336 σελίδες
...which rights do pertain to them and their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government. Section 1. That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. Sec. 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that magistrates... | |
 | Felix Hammer - 2002 - 612 σελίδες
...(entworfen von George Mason, abgedr.: Spaeth/Smith, S. 171-173 = Hall/Wiecek/Finkelman, S. 69 f.), Section 1 („That all men are by nature equally free and...acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaming happmess and safety"); Bill for establishing religious freedom v. 1785/86 für Virginia, im... | |
 | David W. Orr - 2002 - 247 σελίδες
...eighteenth century. The Virginia Bill of Rights [June 12, 1776), for example, held that "all men . . . have certain inherent rights, of which when they enter...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety" (emphasis added; quoted in Commager 1963, 103). That same idea was central to Thomas Jefferson's... | |
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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... 
