 | Illinois State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1887 - 414 pages
...support. It is in accord with a statement in the Bill of Rights in our State Constitution, declaring that "All men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inherent or inalienable rights," among which are "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." The same statement... | |
 | Illinois - 1887 - 68 pages
...Self-Crimination — Acquittal. § 11. Penalties no Corruption of Blood or Forfeiture of Estate. § 1. All men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inherent and inalienable rights — among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. To secure these... | |
 | Jacob Piatt Dunn - Indiana - 1888 - 498 pages
...reaffirmed in their Constitution of 1830, opened with this article : " 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... | |
 | R. Stephen Humphreys - History - 1999 - 324 pages
...in fact the Virginia Bill of Rights of 1776; see esp. Article I: "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 [my italics]." Quoted... | |
 | Guðmundur S. Alfreðsson, Asbjørn Eide - Political Science - 1999 - 822 pages
...squarely based on natural rights and contract theory. It declares: 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, divest or deprive their posterity ... The Declaration... | |
 | Johannes Morsink - Political Science - 1999 - 400 pages
...which phrases recall Enlightenment ways of thinking. The Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776 says that "all men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inherent rights," while the American Declaration of Independence asserts that it is "self-evident that all men are created... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 212 pages
...foundation of government. The first article of the aforesaid, asserts 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 posterity; namely, the enjoyment of... | |
 | G. Alan Tarr - Law - 2000 - 262 pages
...Defense of a free Government"; and the Virginia Declaration of Rights 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."63 Even provisions... | |
 | R. Bruce Douglass, Joshua Mitchell - Reference - 2000 - 274 pages
...aforesaid. The Virginia Bill of Rights (written by George Mason in 1776): [A]ll 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... | |
 | Daniel Judah Elazar, John Kincaid - Political Science - 2000 - 360 pages
...civil societies regularly. Witness the Virginia Bill of Rights (1776): [A]ll 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... | |
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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... 
