 | 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, Moses Hoge - 1813 - 322 pagina’s
...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 the...of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing happiness and safety. II. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that... | |
 | 1817 - 240 pagina’s
...information for the offence. In this case the second article of the bill of rights, having declared that " All power is vested in, and consequently derived from the people, that magistrates are the trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them." It follows, as a necessary consequence,... | |
 | Virginia, Virginia. General Assembly - 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...safety. 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently Power of tinderived from, the people; that magistrates are their Pe°P'e trustees and servants, and... | |
 | Virginia, William Waller Hening - 1823 - 462 pagina’s
...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 the...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. II.. That all power is vested in, and consequently de- Powerof rived from, the people; that... | |
 | Isaac Candler - 1824 - 530 pagina’s
...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 - 522 pagina’s
...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
...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 the...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... | |
| |
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... 
