Remember, it is these people who believe that a deity granted human
beings unalienable rights despite the fact that for hundreds if not thousands of years deities granted no such thing.
Are the unalienable rights in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitutional Bill of Rights really guaranteed in Scripture?
Not exact matches
«Our
unalienable right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness — those
rights were stripped from college kids in Blacksburg and Santa Barbara,» Obama said.
The mother of Scott Beigel, a teacher who
was killed in the shooting, to NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch: «Why
are my son's
unalienable rights not protected as fiercely as the
right to bear arms?»
And thus it
is that the American Proposition, which began with the declaration that all men
are endowed by their Creator with an
unalienable right to life, now means that they
are also endowed (by whom it
is not clear) with the
right to die.
The conservative movement exists to uphold the truths of the Declaration of Independence: «We hold these truths to
be self - evident, that all men
are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these
are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.»
«We hold these truths to
be self - evident, that all men
are created equal... with certain
unalienable Rights... Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.»
They
are endowed with certain
unalienable rights: Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.»
One after another the state constitutions had declared that, as North Carolina's put it, «all men have a natural and
unalienable right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences» (V: 71) The state constitutions indicated that the
right of «free exercise»
was meant to
be absolute, at least to the point of not «disturb [ing] the public peace or obstruct [ing] others in their religious worship» (Massachusetts, 1780, V: 77) Equally straightforward
was the opposition to «an establishment of religion.»
There
's no free speech issue here — you don't have the
unalienable right to deny employees insurance coverage.
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation — We hold these truths to
be self - evident, that all men
are created equal, that they
are endowed by their creator with certain
unalienable rights, that among these
are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
= > «endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these
are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
«We hold these truths to
be selfevident, that all men
are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable rights, that among these
are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.»
Merely the recognition of the self - evident truth that they have certain
unalienable rights and should
be treated equally under the law.
The problem
is that many have forgotten:,,, that all men
are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these
are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
The declaration contains the phrase «they
are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights»
Far from pretending to
be constituting a world ex nihilo, the framers appeal to «self - evident truths» such as the assumed fact that all
are created equal and «endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these
are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.»
For those who love this great country, understand this, the Declaration of Independence proclaims that «We hold these truths to
be self - evident, that all men
are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these
are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness».
attempts to re-write history need to proceed in small pieces We hold these truths to
be self - evident, that all men
are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these
are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Jefferson, as
is well known, believed that every generation had the
right «to begin the world over again, and that: «Nothing
is unchangeable but the inherent and
unalienable rights of man,» and it
was he that felt it would
be a good thing to have a revolution every 20 years.45 He
was contemptuous of those who «look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to
be touched.
«Z,» replying to Benjamin Franklin in Boston, did argue that there had to
be an express reservation of «inherent
unalienable rights,» for example, «in case the government should have in their heads a predilection for any one sect in religion?
That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can
be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence, and therefore all men have an equal, natural and
unalienable right to the free exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience, and that no particular religious sect or society ought to
be favored or established by law in preferrence [sic] to others.
What if
being human no longer qualified us as worthy of certain,
unalienable rights?
Then 14 years after the Declaration of Independence, which proclaimed «all men
are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain
unalienable rights,» the lie
was embedded in the U.S. legal structure through the Naturalization Act of 1790, which barred the
rights of citizenship from both free and enslaved black people.
George Mason, a member of the Con - sti - tu - tion - al Convention and recognized as The Father of the Bill of
Rights submitted this proposal for the wording of the First Amendment All men have an equal, natural and
unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience and that no particular sect or society of Christians ought to
be favored or established by law in preference to others.
I believe «Individual Freedom»
is an «
Unalienable Right» endowed by the Creator.
Immediately after that affirmation, the Declaration of Independence went on to claim an
unalienable right to life, the protection of which
is one of the main reasons that «governments
are instituted among men.»
Our Declaration of Independence holds that «all men
are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable rights, that among these
are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.»
All men
are endowed with certain
unalienable rights, including the
right to life, the
right to liberty and the
right to happiness.
Perhaps one day Americans will honor our founders and support their declaration: We hold these truths to
be self - evident, that all men
are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these
are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
More precisely: does the Constitution sanction the private use of lethal force, and if so, how can that understanding
be squared with the
unalienable character of the
rights bestowed upon us by the laws of nature and nature's God?
This note
was a promise that all people, yes, men as well as women, of any race, and tribe, and tongue, would
be guaranteed the «
unalienable Rights» of «Faith, Hope, and Love» in a community of other believers.
After all... your freedom to spew venom toward Christians
was started with the words, «We hold these truths to
be self - evident, that all men
are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable rights».
However, the «
unalienable Rights» of the unborn have
been violated every day since the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision.
The point
is that «We hold these truths to
be self - evident, that all men
are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these
are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness».
The
right is in its nature an
unalienable right.»
But I
am often surprised and perplexed that men who wrote in the Declaration of Independence that all men
are created equal, and
are endowed by their Creator with the
unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, could so quickly seek to take the first of those
rights — the
right of life — from others.
This note
was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would
be guaranteed the
unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
The Declaration of Independence states it rather clearly We hold these truths to
be self - evident, that all men
are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these
are Life,...
@KDog -
Unalienable rights are covered under the «legal protections» category.
I
'm trying to understand how one determines what «certain
rights... retained by the people» means in the Ninth Amendment, and why growing and consuming plants
is not an «
unalienable right endowed by my Creator».
«We hold these truths to
be self - evident, that all Men
are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these
are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.»
The United States Declaration of Independence
is based upon the «self - evident» truth that «all men
are... endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights».
It
is a matter of first principles, however, that if Ted Cruz renounces any possible citizenship in Canada and makes it a public record, then that
is his
unalienable human
right, and one of the protections implied by his American citizenship
is shelter and protection from any sovereignty who says otherwise.
No, it
is not his
unalienable human
right, and some countries do not allow people to renounce citizenship or make it practically impossible in most circumstances, and US citizenship does not give any «shelter or protection» from anybody except with respect to US law.
@DenisdeBernardy The Wikipedia article says «The United States Declaration of Independence, meanwhile,
is based upon the «self - evident» truth that «all men
are... endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights».
Let me guess you think gay New Yorkers
are not human enough for
unalienable rights or American enough for constitutional
rights.
Excerpt: «When government undermines the
right to life — it
is only a matter of time before other
unalienable Rights are undermined and destroyed.»
But what the education reformers and political elite failed to understand
was that Bridgeport voters, like all Connecticut voters, believe in public schools, believe in our school teachers and believe in the
unalienable right of self - governance.
«Liberty can not
be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a
right... and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a
right, and indisputable,
unalienable, indefeasible, divine
right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers.»