 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...  Cassell's History of the United States - Page 501by Edmund Ollier - 1874Full view - About this book
 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention, Nathan Hale - Constitutional conventions - 1853 - 700 pages
...born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and inalienable rights; among which maybe reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their...seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness. II. It is the right as well as the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1853 - 108 pages
...therein. OF THE EIGHTS OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. ARTICLE 1. All men are bom free and equal, and have certain' natural, essential,...enjoying and defending their lives and liberties ; that df acquiring, possessing, and protecting property ; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their safety... | |
 | William Goodell - Antislavery movements - 1853 - 628 pages
...men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and inalienable rights, which are the right of enjoying and defending their lives and...liberties, that of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property.'—It would be difficult to select words more precisely adapted to the abolition of slavery."—Pickering's... | |
 | Charles Bishop Goodrich - United States - 1853 - 364 pages
...secure the existence of the body politic; to * Constitution of Massachusetts, Part First, Art. I. All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalieuable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and... | |
 | Jonathan French - 1854 - 534 pages
...I. 3 Declaration of Rights of the Inhabitants of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Article 1. All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural,...seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness. 2. It is the right, as well as the duty, of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to... | |
 | Robert Rantoul (Jr.) - History - 1854 - 890 pages
...perfect without its sanction. All men are born free and equal, says the Constitution of Massachusetts, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable...acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; in 6ne, that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness. Privileges, according to the same authority,... | |
 | Robert Rantoul (Jr.) - History - 1854 - 890 pages
...the sublime exordium of the Bill of Rights, " and have certain natural, essential, and vnalienable rights ; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties." " No subject," says the second article, " shall he hurt, molested, or restrained, in his person, liberty,... | |
 | Constitutions, State - 1855 - 576 pages
...I. Jl Declaration of Sights of the Inhabitants of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Article 1. All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural,...seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness. 2. It is the right, as well as the duty, of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to... | |
 | Theodore Parker - Sermons, American - 1855 - 466 pages
...Convention of Massachusetts put this in the first Article of the Constitution of the State : " All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights." All distinction of gentte and simple, bond and free, perished out of Massachusetts. The same thought... | |
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