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 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1864 - 628 pages
...are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalien able rights ; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending...of acquiring, possessing and protecting property." The rights of «ujoying liberty and life, of acquiring and possessing property, are not less valuable... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1862 - 1642 pages
...men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights., which are, the right of enjoying and defending their lives and...of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property." It would be difficult to select words more precisely adapted to the abolition of negro slavery. According... | |
 | George Henry Moore - 1866 - 276 pages
...are born free and equal, and have certain natural, eflential, and unalienable 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 fafety and happinefs."... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - 1866 - 804 pages
...men are born free and equal, and have certain natural and essential rights — which are the rights of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties...of acquiring, possessing and protecting property." It is a fact worthy of note that it had becn decided in Massachusetts, two years before the Summerset... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - 1866 - 748 pages
...men are born free and equal, and have certain natural and essential rights — which are the rights of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties...of acquiring, possessing and protecting property." It is a fact worthy of note that it had been decided in Massachusetts, two years before the Summerset... | |
 | John William Draper - 1867 - 568 pages
...men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and inalienable rights, among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending...seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness." It indirectly abol- .-*„- -, .. „-r _ w^ The Duke de la Rochefoucault Liancourt gives the following... | |
 | New York (State) - 1867 - 254 pages
...men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential and unalienahle rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending...seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness. Mass., 280; (nearly similar) Neb., 370; Nev., 379; NH, 398; NJ, 412; Ohio, 432; Pa., 467; VI., 521;... | |
 | South Carolina. Constitutional Convention - 1868 - 930 pages
...men are born free and equal — endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties, acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness.... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1870 - 462 pages
...men are born frce 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." Another article explains what is meant by Equality, saying : " No man, nor corporation or association... | |
 | 1872 - 324 pages
...men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential and inalienable rights ; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending...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 worship... | |
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