...argument was settled by the addition of a single phrase so that the disputed portion asserted, "All men are by nature equally free and independent, and have...by any compact deprive or divest their posterity." After about two weeks of debate, on June 12, 1776, the convention unanimously adopted Mason's document,...

...Uafhaengighedserkleeringen af 4.7. 1776 er utvivlsomt Virginias rettighedserklaering af 12.6.1776, Section i: »that all men are by nature equally free and independent...state of society, they cannot by any compact, deprive and divest their posterity, namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring...

...new Enlightenment views. The Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776), for example, provided in Article I: That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.23 world. See, eg, the views of Johannes Eisermann (1533), John Ponet (1556), Christopher Goodman...

...Convention; which rights do pertain to them and their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government. That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety, That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the People; that magistrates are...

...leaderless, consensual, anarchic sorority/fraternity. Chapter 6 Framework for Utopia: The Individualist That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. George Mason Virginia Declaration of Rights, June 12, 1776 The basic independence of the individualist...

...Convention; which rights do pertain to them and their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government. That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety, That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the People; that magistrates are...

...various articles of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, which I think are instructive. "Article 1 : That all men are by nature equally free and independent...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. "Article 2: That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that magistrates...

...are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression. The Virginian Constitution declares: "That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...property, and pursuing, and obtaining happiness and safety." 1 n spite of the historical significance of the theory of natural rights, there is a lot of...

...language for the introduction to the Declaration of Independence. In Sections One and Two Mason writes, That all men are by nature equally free and independent...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people... This is clearly echoed...

...clauses they inserted language designed to exclude slaves. Thus, the entire provision of Section 1 read: That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. The phrase "when they enter into a state of society" was understood to limit the language of...