Sentences with phrase «unalienable rights of»
As Thomas Jefferson said about the Constitution of the United States: «Nothing then is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.»
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The unalienable rights of US citizens to live happy, joyous and free (Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness) eroded away after the United Nations was established on 24 Oct 1945:
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.
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.
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.
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.
Are you objecting to the unalienable right of speech which we grant you here?
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?»
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.»
You also have the unalienable right to make a fool of yourself any old time you want, carry on.
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.»
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.
Did not the Declaration of Independence, they ask, describe the right to life as «unalienable»?
= > «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.
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.»
Grobstein explicitly states that the idea of «unalienable rights» endowed by Nature and Nature's God can have no place in bioethical discussions.
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.
«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.
Are the unalienable rights in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitutional Bill of Rights really guaranteed in Scrirights in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitutional Bill of Rights really guaranteed in ScriRights really guaranteed in Scripture?
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.
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.»
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.
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 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,...
«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.
@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».
Excerpt: «When government undermines the right to life — it is only a matter of time before other unalienable Rights are undermined and destroyed.»
«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.»
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...»
Anyone, thanks to the Declaration of Independence, as well as other democratic ideals, affirms a person's unalienable property rights.
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.
Perhaps you could study how the USA was founded by the Declaration of Independence which appealed to «the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them» and «that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness»
«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.»
We were ``... endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights... Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness... to secure these rights Governments are instituted... whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it...» — USA Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1776 http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/docRights... Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness... to secure these rights Governments are instituted... whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it...» — USA Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1776 http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/docrights Governments are instituted... whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it...» — USA Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1776 http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/