...the Virginia Declaration of Rights, adopted a month before the Declaration of Independence, provides: That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.61 Other constitutions contain a different type of general equality provision intended to prohibit...

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...individual rights. For example, the Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776 declared in its first article that "all men are by nature equally free and independent...their posterity, namely, the enjoyment of life and l1berty, w1th the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness...

...uncovered the source of all these rights ascertained: nature. Natural law not only conferred to the people "certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter...by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity". It also proved "[t]hat all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people".30 With no...

...free and independent and have certain inherent rights' (sec. 1). Zu den Menschenrechten gehören 'the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring...property and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety'. Wie entsprechend in der Unabhängigkeitserklärung enthalten, heißt es in sec. 2: 'That all...

...Rights, of which they can not by any Compact, deprive or divest their Posterity; among which are the Enjoyment of Life and Liberty, with the Means of acquiring...Property, and pursuing and obtaining Happiness and Safety." Mason's second article declared that magistrates derived their powers from the people, and...

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