George Mason: Virginia Declaration of Rights

Glossary

• amenable accountable and answerable to; liable and legally responsible to
• bulwarks defenses or safeguards; supports or protection
• burthens an old form of the word burdens: something that is carried; loads or responsibilities
• compact a contract or an agreement between two or more people
• descendible able to be transferred by inheritance
• despotic tyrannical
• dictates guiding principles
• divest strip, take away, or deprive of
• emoluments payments for one's services
• forbearance patience, tolerance, or self-control
• indefeasible unable to be annulled or voided
• indubitable unquestionable; unable to be doubted
• injurious harmful or detrimental
• judicative having the ability to judge
• maladministration poor or inefficient management; corrupt or incompetent administration
• subordination subservience or subjection to another
• suffrage the right to vote
• temperance moderation; self-restraint; avoidance of excess
• trained to arms prepared for battle; instructed in the use of weapons
• trustees persons appointed to manage or govern
• unalienable unable to be surrendered, transferred, or given to another
• vicinage region or vicinity
• weal well-being or happiness; welfare of the community