 | Michael Kent Curtis - 1986 - 292 str.
...Rights declared That the inhabitants of the English colonies of North America, by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English Constitution,...several charters or compacts, have the following rights: "Resolved that they are entitled to life, liberty, and property, and that they have never ceded any... | |
 | John Phillip Reid - 2003 - 398 str.
...Declaration's preamble, Congress claimed as the authority for the rights being declared, "the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English constitution, and the several charters or compacts." But if the rights themselves are examined, not the preamble, it will be found that not one right is... | |
 | Winton U. Solberg - 1990 - 548 str.
...liberties, declare, That the inhabitants of the English colonies in North-America, by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English constitution,...several charters or compacts, have the following RIGHTS: Resolved, NCD 1 1. That they are entitled to life, liberty and property: and they have never ceded... | |
 | J. C. D. Clark - 1994 - 428 str.
...available grounds: 'the Inhabitants of the English Colonies in North America, by the immutable Laws of Nature, the Principles of the English Constitution,...several Charters or Compacts, have the following RIGHTS . . .'"8 But natural law, once admitted, soon swept all before it. The glories of the law of nature... | |
 | John Phillip Reid - 2003 - 398 str.
...Declaration's preamble, Congress claimed as the authority for the rights being declared, "the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English constitution, and the several charters or compacts." But if the rights themselves are examined, not the preamble, it will be found that not one right is... | |
 | Celeste Michelle Condit, John Louis Lucaites - 1993 - 378 str.
...Resolves of the First Continental Congress in 1774 had located colonial rights in "the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English constitution, and the several charters or compacts."5 As war came, the colonists simply and rapidly erased the British constitution from their... | |
 | Willi Paul Adams - 2001 - 406 str.
...declare, [2] That the inhabitants of the English Colonies in North America, by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English constitution,...several charters or compacts, have the following Rights: 1. That they are entitled to life, liberty, and property, and they have never ceded to any sovereign... | |
 | Bernard H. Siegan - 356 str.
...made a formal declaration that the rights of their inhabitants were secured "by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English Constitution, and the several charters or compacts pursuant to which the colonial governments were established." This declaration asserted that those... | |
 | Ronald J. Pestritto, Thomas G. West - 2003 - 304 str.
...the rights of all men, the Declaration could quite easily have cited, as Congress had done in 1774, "the principles of the English constitution, and the several charters or compacts" as the basis of their rights. But long before 1774, Americans had become convinced that the ultimate... | |
 | Merrill Jensen - 2004 - 754 str.
...Massachusetts, and the Quebec Act. Americans, proclaimed the bill of rights, "by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English constitution,...charters or compacts, have the following rights." Eight of the ten resolutions summed up most of the principles Americans had been reiterating for years.... | |
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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 : Resolved, NCD 1. 
