This statement is so profound, everyone should file it where they can review its truths that demonstrate the pinnacle of political achievement. Mankind cannot improve the political process beyond the limitations set out in these principles. These expressions are the height of political definition in all respects. Bob J
(“Silent Cal” was not so silent on this subject.)
President Calvin Coolidge on the 150th anniversary of the Declaration’s ratification in 1926:
“About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning cannot be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction cannot lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.”
The proper wording for our God-given rights is they are UNalienable, not INalieable as stated in this article. There is a major difference between the two.
Unalienable, as was originally declared from our founding, are God-given rights (common law – Natural rights) that CANNOT be taken away, or ceded or transferred because they actually do not belong to us, they are ‘owned’ and declared by God.
Since the founding the evil powers that be have conveniently and actually criminally ‘archived’ unalienable rights as they are now considered irrelevant and non-applicable.
Inalienable rights, on the other hand, are defined as ‘rights’ created by the government who also now deem themselves as our sovereigns. These rights, they claim, can be granted or rescinded at the state’s discretion.