Amendment V


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Document 9

Continental Congress, Declaration and Resolves

14 Oct. 1774Tansill 2

Resolved, N. C. D. 1. That they are entitled to life, liberty and property; and they have never ceded to any foreign power whatever, a right to dispose of either without their consent.


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Documents Illustrative of the Formation of the Union of the American States. Edited by Charles C. Tansill. 69th Cong., 1st sess. House Doc. No. 398. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1927.