Sentences with phrase «from unalienable»
When you face the criminal justice system, you benefit from unalienable rights under the US Constitution.
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«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 belief that every human person possesses unalienable rights to liberty derives from a vision first introduced into history by Judaism and then taught to Christianity.
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.»
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.
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.
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.
So then, apart from the laws of men, human beings have been given the unalienable and inherent ability to coexist with one another.
The Declaration of Independence reads in pertinent part ``... A] ll men are created equal... they are endowed... with certain unalienable rights... That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed...»
«Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator, who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings, and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge; I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers.»