Excerpt: «When government undermines the right to life — it is only a matter of time before
other unalienable Rights are undermined and destroyed.»
Not exact matches
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.»
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.
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.
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.
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.
Anyone, thanks to the Declaration of Independence, as well as
other democratic ideals, affirms a person's
unalienable property
rights.