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Sec. III. The natural equality of men as to their rights.

The natural equality of men as to their rights. All men are by nature equal as to their rights. ....

... For, among men, right always depends upon justice, equity and equality; and never upon force, fraud or cunning, or wisdom perverted to selfish purpose. If no superiority of natural endowments can confer a right to subject others to its control, no casual concurrence of circumstances can afford the slightest pretence for any such right. It is not intended, however, to deny that a man, for such consideration as he thinks proper, may voluntarily relinquish to another individual, or to any body of men, whether formed into an organized society or not, any portion of his natural freedom, and consequently may abandon his natural right to equality with them in this respect.