...grievances, the acts aimed at Massachusetts, and the Quebec Act. Americans, proclaimed the bill of rights, "by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English constitution, and the several charters or compacts, have the following rights." Eight of the ten resolutions summed up...

...their rights and liberties, DECLARE, 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 1. That they are entitled to...

...1774, the First Continental Congress declared that the rights of inhabitants of America are 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 ... the...

...Resolves of the First Continental Congress. The Declaration of Resolves reaffirmed that the colonists, "by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English constitution, and the several charters or compacts . . . are entitled to life, liberty, and property, & they have never...

...their rights and liberties, DECLARE, That the inhabitants of the English colonies in North-America, the space of six months, and shall publish the the several charters or compacts, have the following RIGHTS: Resolved, NCD 1. That they are entitled...

...the Continental Congress put the two together in their Declaration of Rights of 1774, appealing to 'the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English constitution, and the several charters and compacts'. The Americans had demonstrated that the sovereign state's appetite...

...in like cases have usually done, for asserting and vindicating their rights and liberties, declare, That the inhabitants of the English Colonies in North...nature, the principles of the English constitution, and the several charters or compacts, have the following rights: 1. That they are entitled to life, liberty,...