 | William Barton - Freedom of the seas - 2005 - 390 pages
...(commonly called the Declaration of Rights.)...It is declaredby thefirst section of that Article..." That all men are born equally free and independent,,...reputation, and of pursuing their own happiness." But Dr. Rutherforth, who is a dignitary of the church, in England, affords not a solitary instance... | |
 | Mitchell K. Hall - History - 2005 - 494 pages
...structure and a guarantee of fundamental rights. The Constitution asserts "natural and unalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending...acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and of pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness." Religious freedom, rights of conscience, and prohibitions... | |
 | New Jersey - Law - 2005 - 1616 pages
...All men are by nature free and independent, and have certain Natural rights. natural and unalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and of pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness.(a)... | |
 | Eugene F. Ferraro - Business & Economics - 2005 - 598 pages
...Constitution, Article I, §1 All people are by nature free and independent, and have certain inalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing, protecting property; and pursuing and obtaining safety, happiness, and privacy.... | |
 | George McDowell Stroud - History - 2005 - 324 pages
...give the whole article, notwithstanding it enters more into detail than is altogether necessary:— " 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,... | |
 | John A. Marini, Ken Masugi - Political Science - 2005 - 406 pages
...applied provisions of the Ohio Constitution declaring that "[alll men ... have certain inalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting property," and that "[plrivate property shall ever be held inviolate."... | |
 | Sara Warner - Nature - 2010 - 296 pages
...placed on the rights of the citizen among which has been the privilege to “have certain inalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring possessing and protecting property, and pursuing happiness and obtaining safety” [Florida... | |
 | G. Alan Tarr, Robert F. Williams - Political Science - 2012 - 382 pages
...clause that provides: "All persons are by nature free and independent, and have natural and unalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending...acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and of pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness." NJ Const., art. I, par. 1 (1947). This provision was... | |
 | Jeff Broadwater - Biography & Autobiography - 2009 - 352 pages
...Nicholas objected to the first line of the first article. How could a slaveholding society declare that "all men are born equally free and independent, and have certain inherent natural rights"? Incorporating such language into the state's fundamental law, Nicholas worried,... | |
 | David J. Bodenhamer, Randall T. Shepard - History - 2006 - 404 pages
...antiblack conviction. Race, Law, and the Burdens of Indiana History 43 Indiana's 1816 constitution asserted that "all men are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural, inherent, and unalienable rights." Racial (and gender) distinctions nonetheless followed.... | |
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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... 
