 | Virginia - 1877 - 476 pages
...constitution and form of government for this commonwealth: ARTICLE I. BILL OF RIGHTS. A Declaration of nights, made by the representatives of the good people of...rights do pertain to them and their posterity, as the ba.'tis and foundation of government. 1. That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and... | |
 | James Muscoe Matthews - 1878 - 654 pages
...Commonwealth : ARTICLE I. BILL OF RIGHTS. A DECLARATION OF RIGHTS, made by the Representatives of (he good people of Virginia, assembled in full and free...rights do pertain to them and their posterity, as t/ie basis and foundation of Government. 1. That all men are by nature equally free and independent,... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1878 - 648 pages
...then been fairly transcribed, was on the twelfth of June read a third time, and unanimously adopted by the representatives of the good people of Virginia, assembled in full and free convention. These are the rights which they said do pertain to them and their posterity, as the basis and foundation... | |
 | John Brown Dillon - 1879 - 822 pages
...Georgia Historical Collections, vol. ii. p. 280.] SECTION 99. Freedom of Religion— Virginia, 1776. A declaration of rights made by the representatives...posterity as the basis and foundation of government. Agreed to unanimously, June 12, 1776, in convention at Williamsburgh, Virginia : " XVI. That religion,... | |
 | ALLEN THORNDIKE RICE - 1879 - 718 pages
...history of English and American liberty, is here given : DECLARATION OF RIGHTS. DRAWN BY OEOEOE MASON. A DECLARATION of rights made by the representatives...posterity, as the basis and foundation of government, unanimously adopted by the Convention of Virginia, June 12, 1776 : 1. That all men are ereated equally... | |
 | Sir George Campbell - 1879 - 454 pages
...in italics :— BILL OF RIGHTS. A Declaration of Jlir/hts, made by the Representatives of the ^/ood people of Virginia, assembled in full and free Convention,...posterity, as the basis and foundation of government. 2. That this State shall ever remain a member of the United Mates of America, and that the people thereof... | |
 | George Frisbie Hoar - 1879 - 44 pages
...the Declaration of Independence was reported, is preceded by what is entitled in the instrument, " A declaration of rights made by the representatives of the good people of Virginia ; which rights do pertain to them and their posterity as the basis and foundation of government" In... | |
 | Bernard Janin Sage - 1881 - 656 pages
...was drawn by Mr. Mason,* is in the library of Virginia. The declaration as it passed is as follows : A Declaration of Rights made by the Representatives...posterity as the basis and foundation of government. 1. That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which,... | |
 | Bernard Janin Sage - 1881 - 656 pages
...Convention, which rights do pertain to them and their posterity as the basis and foundation of government. 1. That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when thcy enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity; namely,... | |
 | 1881 - 1014 pages
...are both streams from the same prolific fountain. The first article of the Virginia Bill declares, " that all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights the which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest... | |
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A declaration of rights made by the representatives of the good people of Virginia, assembled in full and free convention; which rights do pertain to them and their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government. 
