We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal ; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ; that to secure these rights... History of Woman Suffrage - Page 70edited by - 1889Full view - About this book
| Bela Bates Edwards - 1833 - 892 pages
...pursuit of happiness ; to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed ; whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to abolish it, and institute new government." All men... | |
| Joseph Story - 1833 - 540 pages
...pursuit of happiness. To secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people (plainly intending, the majority of the people) to alter,... | |
| William Goodell - 1842 - 128 pages
...order" — is remarkably explicit, and direct to the point' in hand. All governments " derive their just powers from the consent of the governed." — " Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of the ends for which it was instituted, it is the right of the people to alter, or to abolish it,... | |
| 1848 - 690 pages
...certain inalienable rights ; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness ; that to secure these rights governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED. Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right... | |
| Elizabeth Wilson - 1849 - 390 pages
...certain inalienable rights—that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit ofjfappiness. That to secure these rights governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." In the face of these declarations they have tyrannically wrested these rights from... | |
| 1854 - 194 pages
...certain inalienable rights ; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ; that to secure these rights governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of those ends, it is the right... | |
| Rebecca Jo Plant, Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Kathryn Kish Sklar, Thomas Dublin - 1854 - 204 pages
...certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ; that to secure these rights governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of those ends, it is the right... | |
| 1856 - 654 pages
...certain inalienable rights ; ' that among them are life, liberty, and the pur4 suit of happines* ; that to secure these rights ' Governments are instituted, deriving their just ' powers from the consent of aoch races, if free 4 and white, among the governed.'1 But our fathers deserve not this taunt. That... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Chew Howard - 1857 - 260 pages
...certain unalienable rights ; that among them is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ; that to secure these rights, Governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." The general words above quoted would seem to embrace the whole human family, and... | |
| 1857 - 492 pages
...certain unalienable rights ; that among them are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed," — and proceeds to give this interpretation of them : — " The general words above... | |
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