 that all men ... are endowed by their creator with [inalienable rights to] life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness [and] that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men.  The Life of John W. Davis - Page 284by Theodore A. Huntley - 1924 - 295 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American Academy of Political and Social Science - Political science - 1900 - 552 pages
...the advocates of the doctrine have always repudiated. Whenever the declaration is made that all men are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, the declaration implicitly prohibits any exclusively egoistic assertion of them by any... | |
 | Walter Lynwood Fleming - Reconstruction - 1905 - 322 pages
...Declaration of Independence declares as self-evident truths, that all men are created equal— that they are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It denies the despot's dogma of the "Divine rights of kings," to rule over mankind. It... | |
 | Westel Woodbury Willoughby - Germany - 1918 - 224 pages
...and maintained is the welfare of the governed. The Declaration of Independence declares that all men are endowed by their creator with inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and that to secure them, governments are instituted among men. The Constitution of the... | |
 | American literature - 1924 - 702 pages
...has offered the following as his Democratic creed: "We believe that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that the best government is that which governs least; that the Constitution and its limitations... | |
 | Law - 1915 - 532 pages
...LIFE-SAVING OPERATION OR REMEDY FROM A DYING CHILD? The Declaration of Independence says that all men "are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights" to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." The preamble to the Constitution says it was formed to "secure the blessings of liberty... | |
 | Carl Mitcham, Alois Huning - Philosophy - 1986 - 390 pages
...these truths to be self-evident," proclaims the American Declaration of Independence, "that all men ... are endowed by their creator with [inalienable rights to] life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness [and] that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men." Not life and... | |
 | Carl Mitcham - Philosophy - 1994 - 410 pages
...truths to be self-evident," proclaims the American Declaration of Independence, "that all men . . . are endowed by their creator with [inalienable rights to] life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness [and] that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men." Not life and... | |
 | Joseph James Chambliss - Education - 1996 - 742 pages
...Independence (1776) boldly asserted as "self-evident" truths the doctrine that "all men are created equal" and are endowed by their Creator with "inalienable rights" to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. т Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) stated that "the J principles of Jefferson are the definitions... | |
 | David F. Ericson, Louisa Bertch Green - Political Science - 1999 - 284 pages
...institution did appear to violate such "self-evident truths" as that all men are one before God; that they are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights to life, liberty, and property in themselves and the fruits of their labors; and that all legitimate forms of government... | |
 | Michael H. Barnes - Religion - 2003 - 380 pages
...Enlightenment thought argued that there are universal human rights. "All men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" says the 1776 US Declaration of Independence. Postmodernism points out that the Declaration... | |
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