...flourish in the first place. Given the breadth of its inclusiveness, his First Article — "all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights," itself a model for Jefferson's wording in the Declaration of Independence — led to tension at the...

...erging die Verfassung von Virginia; deren Bill of Rights beginnt mit den berühmten Worten: That all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights ...; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property,...

...political thinking, of course. The opening sentence of the Virginia Declaration asserts that "All men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights." The word does not occur again, however. George Mason seats the legitimacy of government rather in a...

...448 Vgl Pernthaler, Allgemeine Staatslehre 165. 149 Art l Virginia Bill of Rights: „That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." 450 Art l zweiter Satz Französische Erklärung der Menschen- und Bürgerrechte: „Les distinctions...

...Aristoteles l994: l280b]. l4l Zur Illustration: Virginia Bill of Rights (l2. Juni l776): „That all men are by nature equally free and independent and have...property and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." Erklärung der Menschen- und Bürgerrechte in der Französischen Revolution (26. August l789):...

...Bill of Rights vom 12. Juni 1776 ist von vorstaatlichen, moralischen Rechten die Rede: „That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." Überdies bedarf es eines Wortes der Erklärung, dass ausgerechnet der Verfassung einer Sklavenhaltergesellsch...

...that were superior to any government."16 In the Virginia Bill of Rights Mason wrote, "That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety."17 Believed Mason, "Government, is, or ought to be an institution for the common benefit, protection,...

...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,...

...engighedserkleeringen af 4.7. 1776 er utvivlsomt Virginias rettighedserklaering af 12.6.1776, Section i: »that all men are by nature equally free and independent and have...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...

...instrumental . . . view."1' The Virginia Declaration of Rights, in 1776, mentioned, as a fundamental right, "the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." This, as Harry Scheiber has pointed out, was not a "defensive" concept of property rights,...