 | Constitutions - 1782 - 188 pages
...Art. I. A LL men are born free and equal, and have certa'n £\ natural, eflential, and qnalienable rights ; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties ; that of acquiring, pofleffing, and protecting property ; in fine, that of feeking and obtaining their... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1877 - 490 pages
...that article : " All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights, among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties." There are similar articles in the declaration of rights of New Hampshire and Pennsylvania. Soon after... | |
 | 1813 - 516 pages
...Mossactnuctts, An. I. All men are born free and equal, and have certain natu. ral, essential, and unaltennble rights : among which may be reckoned the right of .enjoying and defending their lives and liberties ; tint of acquiring, pout-inn;, and protecting property ; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their... | |
 | Boston (Mass.). Common Council - Boston (Mass.) - 1822 - 148 pages
...^Massachusetts. ARTICLE I. ALL men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending Equaiity of hirth their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing, andnshts, and protecting... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1826 - 126 pages
...MASSACHUSETTS. ARTICLE I. ALL men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights ; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties ; that of acquiring, posse.ssing, and protecting property ; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining... | |
 | Henry Clay - 1827 - 200 pages
...possessing and protecting property." From the Declaration of Rights — Massachusetts. " All men are free and equal, and have certain natural, essential...enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing and protecting property," Sic. And again, "No man, or corporation, or... | |
 | George McDowell Stroud - Slavery - 1827 - 190 pages
...article is, " all men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential and unalienable rights, among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing and protecting property; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their... | |
 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1832 - 276 pages
...Massachusetts. ART. I.—ALL men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties ; that of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property ; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their... | |
 | Massachusetts. General Court. Senate - 1833 - 806 pages
...Massachusetts. AST. I. — ALL men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights ; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties ; that of acquiring, possessing^ and protecting property ; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Theology - 1833 - 892 pages
...article is, " all men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights, among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and lib" The most signal effort here alluded to on the part of the general assembly of Pennsylvania, when... | |
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All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; in fine, that... 
