 | 1859 - 452 pages
...Constitution. ARTICLE I. — DECLARATION OF RIGHTS. SECTION 1. All mea are by nature free and independent, and have certain inalienable rights, among which are...property, and pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness. SEC. 2. All political power is inherent in the people. Government is instituted for the protection,... | |
 | William Astley Cooper Anderson - 1859 - 92 pages
...219. The first section of the declaration of rights is, "All men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inalienable rights, among which are...enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing and defending property ; and pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness." This general... | |
 | W. C. Anderson - 1859 - 104 pages
...219. The first section of the declaration of rights is, "All men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inalienable rights, among which are...enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing and defending property ; and pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness." This general... | |
 | 1859 - 292 pages
...United States. Our Bill of Rights begins, " Sec. 1. All men are by nature free and independent. Sec. 2. All political power is inherent in the people. Government is instituted for their equal protection and benefit/' Does any caviller pretend that the words, " all men," in the first... | |
 | 1859 - 300 pages
...United States. Our Bill of Rights begins, " Sec. 1. All men are by nature free and mdependent. Sec. 2. All political power is inherent in the people. Government is instituted for their equal protection and benefit" Does any caviller pretend that the words, " all men," in the first... | |
 | David Price Belknap - 1860 - 778 pages
...Constitution. ARTICLE I. DECLARATION OF RIGHTS. SECTION 1. All men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inalienable rights, among which are...; and pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness. SEC. 2. All political power .is inherent in the people. Government is instituted for the protection,... | |
 | Vermont Historical Society - 1921 - 676 pages
...men are born equally free and independent," and have the natural, inherent, and unalienable rights of "enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring,...and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety"; that within such period they were not safeguarded by the provisions of Article... | |
 | Alvan Stewart - 1860 - 442 pages
...EIGHTS AND PEIVILEOES." "All men are by nature free arid independent, and have certain natural and inalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and of pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness." 12* It was... | |
 | Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - 1862 - 438 pages
...and happiness." The Iowa, California, New Jersey, Minnesota, and Ohio constitutions declare — "All political power is inherent in the people. Government...instituted for the protection, security, and benefit of the people ; and they have the right, at all times, to alter or reform the same •whenever the public... | |
 | Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown - 1862 - 540 pages
...indulged. Its declaration of rights hegins by proclaiming that all men "have certain natural inherent and inalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and of pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness." But what... | |
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All men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty ; acquiring, possessing, and protecting property ; and pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness. 
