![]() Separation of legislative, executive, and judicial departments periodical elections. That no man, or set of men, is entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public services which not being descendible, neither ought the offices of magistrate, legislator, or judge to be hereditary. No exclusive emoluments or privileges offices not to be hereditary. That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of maladministration and, whenever any government shall be found inadequate or contrary to these purposes, a majority of the community hath an indubitable, inalienable, and indefeasible right to reform, alter, or abolish it, in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public weal. Government instituted for common benefit. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people, that magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them. That all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. ![]() A DECLARATION OF RIGHTS made by the good people of Virginia in the exercise of their sovereign powers, which rights do pertain to them and their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government.
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