 | G. Alan Tarr - 2000 - 262 pagina’s
...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 - 2000 - 274 pagina’s
...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 - 2000 - 360 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Michael Burgan - 2001 - 52 pagina’s
...Virginia politician, George Mason, had just written the Virginia Declaration of Rights. Mason said "that all men are by nature free and independent and have certain . . . rights." An earlier British scholar named John Locke influenced both Mason and Jefferson. In... | |
 | Timothy B. Powell - 2000 - 240 pagina’s
...On the one hand, the "Declaration of Rights" in the state constitution opened with the proposition that "All men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty."1 On the other... | |
 | Ronald Banaszak - 2002 - 264 pagina’s
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 | Paul Finkelman - 2002 - 488 pagina’s
...designed to finesse the issue of slavery. The document declared 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... | |
 | Willi Paul Adams - 2001 - 406 pagina’s
...their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government. [2] 1. 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... | |
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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... 
