| 1878 - 598 páginas
...anti-slavery principles.1 "!N GENERAL ASSEMBLY, November 5, 1819, " Holding as sacred the great principle, " That all men are born equally free and independent,...certain natural, inherent, and inalienable rights, among 540 which are the enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting property,... | |
| Massachusetts Historical Society - 1863 - 548 páginas
...legal action of the day. I will only give the first article in the Constitution of Vermont : — « All men are born equally free and independent, and have...inalienable rights ; among which are the enjoying and defending life and liberty ; acquiring, possessing, and protecting property ; and pursuing and obtaining... | |
| John Jacob Anderson - 1880 - 444 páginas
...PART THE FIRST. A Declaration of the Bights of the Inhabitants of the State of Vermont. ABTIcLE I. That all men are born equally free and independent,...inalienable rights, among which are the enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining... | |
| George Washington Williams - 1882 - 1148 páginas
...elective franchise. In Article i, Section I, of the Bill of Rights, this remarkable language occurs: " That all men are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural, inherent, and unalienable rights," etc. But the very next year the primal rights of the Negro as a citizen were struck... | |
| Zachariah Frederick Smith - 1886 - 890 páginas
...makes his escape to the north-west side of the Ohio, is protected by this law. Now, " '\VHEREAS, All men are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural, inherent, and unalienable rights, among which are the enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing,... | |
| 1898 - 388 páginas
...and •free government may be recognized and forever unalterably established, we declare: SECTION 1. That all men are born equally free and independent, and have ' certain natural, inherent and unalienable rights; amongst which are the enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing... | |
| Maine. Board of Agriculture - 1887 - 646 páginas
...State, in terms, guarantees to us. The Constitution of the State reads as follows : SECTION 1. All men are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural, inherent and unalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing,... | |
| Historical Society of Pennsylvania - 1888 - 878 páginas
...they must yield to the more sterling expressions employed in this act. Let these speak for themselves: "That all men are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural, inherent and unalienable rights, among which are the enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring possessing... | |
| Jacob Piatt Dunn - 1888 - 484 páginas
...principles of liberty and free government may be recognized and unalterably established, WE DECLABE, That all men are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural, inherent and unalienable rights ; among which are the enjoying and defending life and liberty, and of acquiring,... | |
| Oran Milo Roberts - 1889 - 46 páginas
...people; all free governments are founded on their authority and instituted for their benefit." "All men are born equally free and independent, and have...inherent, and inalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and... | |
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