 | United States. Congress. House - 1868 - 286 pages
...State to dissolve its connection therewith. SECTION 1. All men are by nature free and equal, and Lave certain inalienable rights, among which are those...pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness. SEC. 3. This State shall ever remain a member of the American Union ; the people thereof a part of the American... | |
 | 1869 - 826 pages
...others, taken from tho Declaration of Rights, as follows : DEOLABATION OF В1ОПТЗ. All men are, by nature, free and equal, and have certain inalienable...property, and pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness. Section 2. All political power is inherent in the people. Government is instituted for the protection,... | |
 | California, Creed Haymond, John Chilton Burch, John H. McKune - 1872 - 886 pages
...punished. 21. Popular rights retained by the people. SECTION 1. All men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inalienable rights, among which are...is inherent in the people. Government is instituted lor the protection, security, and benefit of the people, and they have the right to alter or reform... | |
 | California - 1872 - 892 pages
...declaration of rights, the great fundamental truths that 'all men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inalienable rights, among which are...and pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness,' are distinctly announced; and it is declared that all political power is inherent in the people; that... | |
 | Thomas Foster Withrow, Edward Holcomb Stiles - 1874 - 616 pages
...place of beginning. ARTICLE 1. — BILL OF RIGHTS. 1. All men are, by nature, free and independent, and have certain inalienable rights — among which...property, and pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness. 2. All political power is inherent in the people. Government is instituted for the protection, security... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1874 - 904 pages
...declaratory of the fundamental rights of the citizen : as that all men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inalienable rights, among which are...property, and pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness ; that the right to property is before and higher than any consti[* 36] tutional * sanction ; that... | |
 | California - 1874 - 870 pages
...declaration of rights, the great fundamental truths that 'all men are by nature free and independc-nt. nnd have certain inalienable rights, among which are those...and pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness,' are distinctly announced; and it is declared that all political power is inherent in the people; that... | |
 | New Jersey - 1876 - 666 pages
...acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and of pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness. 2. All political power is inherent in the people....and benefit of the people, and they have the right at all times to alter or reform the same, whenever the public good may require it3. No person shall... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore - 1877 - 1054 pages
...to all, do establish this constitution : DECLARATION OF RIGHTS. * / VTf) SECTION 1. All men are by nature free and equal, and have certain inalienable...instituted for the protection, security, and benefit of its citizens, and they have the right to alter or amend the same whenever the public good may require... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore - 1878 - 1042 pages
...constitution. ARTICLE I. DECLARATION OF RIGHTS. SECTION 1. All men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inalienable rights, among which are...happiness. SEC. 2. All political power is inherent to the people. Government is instituted for the protection, security, and benefit of the people; and... | |
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All men are, by nature, free and equal, and have certain inalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness. 
