 | Virginia - 1803 - 1026 pagina’s
...they enter into a ftate of fbciety, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divert their pofterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and poilellirg property, and pnrfuing and obtaining happinefs and fafety.-^II. THAT all power is veiled... | |
 | John Wilson Campbell - 1813 - 322 pagina’s
...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;...of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing happiness and safety. II. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that... | |
 | Virginia, William Waller Hening - 1823 - 462 pagina’s
...and have certain inherent rights, of'which, nehwwben they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. II.. That all power is vested in, and consequently de- Powerof rived from, the people; that... | |
 | Virginia, William Waller Hening - 1821 - 674 pagina’s
...a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; name-' ly, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently Power of tinderived from, the people; that... | |
 | Isaac Candler - 1824 - 540 pagina’s
..." all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain rights of which they cannot deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring or possessing property." And yet if a citizen of that State wishes to do all in his power towards the... | |
 | Isaac Candler - 1824 - 530 pagina’s
..." all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain rights of which they cannot deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring or possessing property." And yet if a citizen of that State wishes to do all in his power towards the... | |
 | Henry Clay - 1827 - 200 pagina’s
...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;...possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness." In pursuance of this principle, the committee find the following provision in the fourth section of... | |
 | Timothy Pitkin - 1828 - 562 pagina’s
...which they could not, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity ; that among these was the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety — That all power was vested in and derived from the people, that magistrates were their trustees... | |
 | 1831 - 494 pagina’s
...of rights of Virginia, particularly, ranks in the same class, and secures on the same footing, " the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and obtaining happiness and safety." Surely, this court will not give its sanction to a distinction between... | |
 | Virginia. Constitutional Convention - 1830 - 932 pagina’s
...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;...and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining nappiness and safety." — The article enumerates property as equally aear and sacred with life and... | |
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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... 
