...liherty and free government may he recognized and estahlished, we declare: § 1. That all freemen, when they form a social compact, are equal in rights;...no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive, separate, puhlic emoluments or privileges, from the community, hut in consideration of puhlic services....

...constitutional principle. By the first section of the declaration of rights, it is declared, "that all freemen, when they form a social compact, are equal in rights;...that no man or set of men, are entitled to exclusive separate public emoluments or privileges, but in consideration of public services." This declaration...

...free Government may be recognized and 'c.ilali!is!inl — we (the people of Connecticut) declare — That all men, when they form a social compact, are equal in rights." What rights ? Rights antecedent to the compact, I presume. " And that no man, or set of men, are entitled...

...established, we declare : SEC. 1. That all freemen, when they form a social compact, are AH freemen equal in rights ; and that no man or set of men are entitled to exclu- are equal' give, separate public emoluments or privileges, but in consideration of public services....

...the most important section in the declaration of the rights of the citizen, says, that all freemen, when they form a social compact, are equal in rights:...no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive, separate public emoluments or privileges fiom community, but in consideration of public services."...

...and established, we declare : SEC. 1. That all freemen, when they form a social compact, All freemen are equal in rights ; and that no man or set of men are entitled are equalto exclusive, separate public emoluments or privileges, but in consideration of public services,...

...plantations, do by these presents assent to and ratify the said constitution." CONSTITUTION OF CONNECTICUT. " That all men, when they form a social compact, are equal in rights ; and that no men, or set of men, are entitled to exclu1842.] fiive public emoluments or privileges from CONSTITUTION...

...essential principles of liberty and free government may be recognised and established, we declare : §1; That all men, when they form a social compact, are equal in lights : asd •>>«- nr c!DL<!<i2>r=s :•: pcrr « 2. Thai tl TK>i 5 4. Xo ofwoiriup. 55. ETCTT O&KB...

...held of them for the common interest of the whole Society." The Constitution of Connecticut declares that " all men, when they form a social Compact, are equal in Rights ;" and the Constitutions of some of the other States have like expressions. Now here it is plain that the...

..." WHEREAS, In the first article of the constitution of Mississippi, H is declared that all freemen, when they form a social compact, are equal in rights,...that no man or set of men are entitled to exclusive, separate, public emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration ot' public services,...