 | United States federal convention - 1819 - 524 pages
...rights of the people, in some such manner as the following: merit of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. n. That all power is naturally vested in, and consequently derived from the people ; that magistrates,... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1838 - 684 pages
...deprive or divest their posterity; among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." "That the powers of Government may be re-assumed by the people, whensoever it shall become... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1826 - 844 pages
...deprive or divest their posterity, among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. Second. That all power is naturally vested in, and consequently derived from, the People; that... | |
 | John Cain - Forms (Law) - 1832 - 360 pages
...have certain natural, inherent, and unalienable rights; among which are, the enjoying and defending life and liberty, and of acquiring, possessing, and...property^ and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. SEC. 2. That all power is inherent in the people; and all free governments are founded on their... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1833 - 684 pages
...deprive or divest their posterity; among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." "Thut the powers of Government may be re-assumed by the people, whensoever it shall become... | |
 | Joseph Martin, William Henry Brockenbrough - Virginia - 1835 - 644 pages
...deprive or divest their posterity ; among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. A Declaration of Rights made by the Representatives of ike People of Virginia, anembleil and... | |
 | Arthur Amasa Ross - Rhode Island - 1838 - 170 pages
...cannot deprive their posterity ; among which, are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. That all men have an equal, natural, inalienable right to the exercise of religion, according... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1838 - 334 pages
...deprive or divest their posterity, among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, witn the means of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." Not to dwell on the oversight of confining to posterity the benefit of the rights thus declared,... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - Petition, Right of - 1838 - 144 pages
...'All men are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural, inherent, and inalienable rights, among which are the enjoying and defending of life and liberty ,- acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.'... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1841 - 1092 pages
...deprive or divest their posterity ; among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." 2. "That all power is naturally vested in, and consequently derived from, the people." And,... | |
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That there are certain natural rights of which men, when they form a social compact cannot deprive or divest their posterity, among which are the enjoyment of life • and liberty, with the means of acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and pursuing... 
