 That the inhabitants of the English colonies in North America, by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English constitution, and the several charters or compacts, have the following RIGHTS.  Niles' National Register - Page 141812Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | William Augustus Mowry - 1887 - 312 pages
...the first place, as Englishmen, their ancestors, in like cases have usually done, for affecting and vindicating their rights and liberties, DECLARE, That the inhabitants of the English colonies in North-America, by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English constitution, and the... | |
 | Marius Schoonmaker - 1888 - 590 pages
...colonies and the unjust claims and despotic action of the English Government, Congress declared : " That the inhabitants of the English Colonies in North...nature the principles of the English Constitution, and the several charters and compacts have the following rights : " Resolved 4th That the foundation of... | |
 | United States - 1969 - 348 pages
...the first place, as Englishmen, their ancestors in like cases have usually done, for asserting and vindicating their rights and liberties, declare, That...nature, the principles of the English Constitution, and the several charters or compacts, have the following rights : Resolved, NCD 1. That they are entitled... | |
 | California. State Department of Education - 1969 - 84 pages
...overthrown of course. These views were repeated in the Declaration of Rights in 1774, which declared that "the inhabitants of the English Colonies in North America, by the immutable laws of nature, have the following rights," which were then identified as those of "life, liberty and property." This... | |
 | Rene Albert Wormser, Rene Wormser - 1972 - 628 pages
...basic rights, a statement which anticipates the premises of the Declaration of Independence: ". . . the inhabitants of the English Colonies in North America,...nature, the principles of the English constitution, and the several charters or compacts ... are entitled to life, liberty, and property, & they have never... | |
 | Harlan D. Unrau - 1976 - 358 pages
...rights from the Sugar Act to the Coercive Acts. These rights, stated the declaration, were guaranteed "by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English Constitution, and the several charters or compacts." Now, in 1774, after a decade of attempting to gain recognition for... | |
 | John Richard Alden - 1984 - 356 pages
...adopted a Declaration of Rights that demanded recognition by Britain of American liberties based upon "the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English constitution," and charter rights; repeal of the many obnoxious measures adopted by Parliament after 1763; and withdrawal... | |
 | Michael Kent Curtis - 1986 - 292 pages
...Congress of 1774 in the Declaration of Rights declared That the inhabitants of the English colonies of North America, by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English Constitution, and the several charters or compacts, have the following rights: "Resolved that they are entitled to life,... | |
 | John Phillip Reid - 2003 - 398 pages
...ambiguous note" because the Continental Congress's Declaration of Rights appealed simultaneously to "the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English constitution, and the several charters and compacts." The truth is there was little substantive difference between natural... | |
 | Winton U. Solberg - 1990 - 548 pages
...the first place, as Englishmen, their ancestors in like cases have usually done, for asserting and vindicating their rights and liberties, declare, That the inhabitants of the English colonies in North-America, by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English constitution, and the... | |
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