 | Antislavery movements - 1836 - 724 pages
...it was abolished in each of the free States, or at least the New England States. To the .extract. " That all men are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural, inherent, and unalienable rignts, among which are the enjoying and defending life and liberty;... | |
 | Thomas Price - Slavery - 1837 - 36 pages
...protecting, property; and, in a word, of seeking and obtaining happiness.”—New Jlamp8hire. “All men are born equally free and independent, and have...property and reputation, and of pursuing their own happiness.”—Pennaylvania. AMERICAN PRACTICE. 1. “Negroes.—A lot of uncommonly likely negroes... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1837 - 642 pages
...born free and equal”. This declaration was engrafted in the Constitution of Pennsylvania. “All men are born equally free and independent, and have certain inherent and indefeasible te, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and librtyscpiiring, possessing and protecting... | |
 | Slavery - 1837 - 340 pages
...and protecting, property; and, in a word, of seeking and obtaining happiness."—New Hampshire. " All men are born equally free and independent, and have certain inherent and indefeasible righls, among which arc those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, of acquiring, possessing,... | |
 | Joel Barlow Sutherland - Parliamentary practice - 1838 - 456 pages
...liberty and free government may be recognised and unalterably established, WE DECLARE THAT Section I. All men are born equally free and independent, and have...and reputation, and of pursuing their own happiness. [See 4 Dall. 258, 260.] Sec. II. All power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1838 - 360 pages
...reasoning woiks against his position. What, he asked, did the uonstitution of Pennsylvania say? Why, that "all men are born equally free and independent,...and indefeasible rights, among which are those of enjoy ing and defending life and liberty, of acquiring, possessing and protecting property and reputation,... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1838 - 388 pages
...difference of colour, or opinions, or anything else. Therefore it was that he was in favor of saying " that all men are born equally free and independent,...and have certain inherent and indefeasible rights," of which rights they shall not be deprived on any account what* ever. And the language of the bill... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1838 - 398 pages
...would feel himself bound to give some meaning to. That first section was in the following words : " That all men are born equally free and independent, and have certain inherent and indefeasable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty ; of acquiring,... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1839 - 310 pages
...principles of liberty and free government may be recognized and unalterably established, WE DECLARE: SECT. I. That all men are born equally free and independent,...and reputation, and of pursuing their own happiness. SECT. II. That all power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority,... | |
 | William Smyth - France - 1840 - 392 pages
...unalienable rights;" and it proceeds to enumerate them. Again, in the constitution of Pennsylvania : " All men are born equally free and independent, and have certain inherent and indefeasible rights." " All power is inherent in the people; all free governments are founded on their authority," says the... | |
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I. That all men are born equally free and independent, and have certain inherent and indefeasible rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property and reputation, and of pursuing... 
