...with its institutions. 3. That the fourth article of the declaration of rights of Virginia asserted, " that no man or set of men are entitled to exclusive...community, but in consideration of public services;* but the enjoyment of the glebes did confer upon the church "exclusive emoluments from the community,"...

...to abolish one form of government, and establish another, whenever the public good requires it. 3. No man or set of men are entitled to exclusive or separate privileges. 4. Every person has a right to worship Almighty God, according to the dictates of his own...

...a social compact, are equal; ud thit no man or set of men are entitled to exclusive, sepmte, public emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public services: And, secondly, that all power is inherent in the people, and all free Governments are founded on their...

...act under the second section of the first article of the Constitution of the State, which declares " No man or set of men are entitled to exclusive or separate privileges." If the State possesses no right to those lands, why legislate upon the subject? If it...

...reform, alter, or abolish it, in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public weal. 4. That no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive...magistrate, legislator, or judge, to be hereditary. 5. That the legislative and executive powers of the state should be separate and distinct from the...

...indefeasible right to reform, alter, or abolish it, as shall be judged most conducive to the public weal. 4. No man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or...consideration of public services ; which not being descendible or hereditary, the idea of a man born a magistrate, a legislator, or a judge, is unnatural and absurd....

...social compact, are equal ; and that no man or set of men are entitled to exclusive, separate, public emoluments or privileges, from the community, but in consideration of public services. 2. That all power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority,...

...are less sacred than those of the majority. The constitution of our state wisely and justly declares, "that no man or set of men are entitled to exclusive or separate privileges," and we hold it clearly to be a subversion of its spirit, if not its letter, to declare...

...compact, are equal in rights ; and no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive separate public emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public services. Sec. 2. All political power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their...

...reform, alter, or abolish it, in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public weal. 4. That no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate e moluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public services ; which not being...