 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; that of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; in fine, that...  Life and Public Services of Charles Sumner - Page 83by Charles Edwards Lester - 1874 - 596 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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 enjoying and defending their lives and liberties ; that of acquiring, pofleffing, and protecting property ; in fine, that of feeking and obtaining their... | |
 | Constitutional law - 1783 - 492 pages
...COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, I. ALL men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, eflential, and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned...of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties ; that of acquiring, poffeffing, and protecting property ; in fine, that of feeking and obtaining their... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1877 - 490 pages
...Constitution of Massachusetts was ratified. These are a part of 'the words of that article : " All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural,...enjoying and defending their lives and liberties." There are similar articles in the declaration of rights of New Hampshire and Pennsylvania. Soon after... | |
 | William Winterbotham - History - 1795 - 514 pages
...OF RIGHTS. I. All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, effential and uoalienable rights ; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties ; that of acquiring, quiring, poffeffing and protecting property ; in fine, that of feelting and obtaining... | |
 | 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... | |
 | David Benedict - Baptists - 1813 - 588 pages
...but priests and constables have gone another. The first article of the Bill of Rights declares " All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights," &c. The second declares, " No subject shall be hurt, molested, or restrained, in \\K person, liberty... | |
 | Boston (Mass.). Common Council - Boston (Mass.) - 1822 - 148 pages
...DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS, OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE Commonwealth oi ^Massachusetts. ARTICLE I. ALL men are born free and equal, and have certain natural,...may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending Equaiity of hirth their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing, andnshts, and protecting... | |
 | Alden Bradford - Massachusetts - 1822 - 1122 pages
...of civil and political liberty, which are recognized by the constitution of the State : " that all men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential and unalienable rights." And these, he said, " he considered guaranteed by the author of nature, and acknowledged by divine... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1826 - 126 pages
...X. DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. ARTICLE I. ALL men are born free and equal, and have certain natural,...of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties ; that of acquiring, posse.ssing, and protecting property ; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining... | |
 | George McDowell Stroud - Slavery - 1827 - 192 pages
...bill of rights prefixed to the constitution of the state, — the language of which article is, " all men are born free and equal, and have certain natural,...enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing and protecting property ; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their... | |
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