| Constitutions - 1782 - 188 pages
...Art. I. A LL men are born free and equal, and have certa'n £\ natural, eflential, and qnalienable rights ; among which may be reckoned the right of...defending their lives and liberties ; that of acquiring, pofleffing, and protecting property ; in fine, that of feeking and obtaining their fafety and happinefs.... | |
| Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1877 - 490 pages
...that article : " All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights, among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties." There are similar articles in the declaration of rights of New Hampshire and Pennsylvania. Soon after... | |
| Readers - 1803 - 250 pages
...equal, and have certain natural, effential, and unalien.ibb rights; among which may be reckoned ihe right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, poffdTutg, and protecting property; in fine, that of feeking and obtaining their fafety and happinefs.... | |
| Constitutions - 1804 - 372 pages
...and equal, and have certain nataralleffentia!, and unalienable rights ; among which may be reckoaed the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties ; that of acquiring, poffefling, and protecting property ; in fine, that of feeking and obtaining their iafety and happinefs.... | |
| 1813 - 516 pages
...Mossactnuctts, An. I. All men are born free and equal, and have certain natu. ral, essential, and unaltennble rights : among which may be reckoned the right of .enjoying and defending their lives and liberties ; tint of acquiring, pout-inn;, and protecting property ; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their... | |
| Boston (Mass.). Common Council - Boston (Mass.) - 1822 - 148 pages
...^Massachusetts. ARTICLE I. ALL men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending Equaiity of hirth their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing, andnshts, and protecting... | |
| Massachusetts - 1826 - 126 pages
...MASSACHUSETTS. ARTICLE I. ALL men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights ; among which may be reckoned the right of...seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness. II. It is the right, as well as the duty, of all men in society, publickly, and at stated seasons,... | |
| George McDowell Stroud - Slavery - 1827 - 190 pages
...article is, " all men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential and unalienable rights, among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying...seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness." This declaration, embodied as it was in the constitution, became at once the paramount law of the land,—and... | |
| Henry Clay - 1827 - 200 pages
...possessing and protecting property." From the Declaration of Rights — Massachusetts. " All men are free and equal, and have certain natural, essential...of acquiring, possessing and protecting property," Sic. And again, "No man, or corporation, or association of men, have any other title to obtain advantages,... | |
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