These actions, too, are about the Constitution and securing our unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Particularly for those like myself who believe strongly in both unalienable natural rights as well as traditional standards of conduct.
It draws inspiration from the Founders' belief that all people are born with an unalienable right to the pursuit of happiness.
They proclaimed our unalienable rights, so let us speak out for the dignity of every human being and the rights that are universal.
The GOP has only, and then very incompletely, gotten its head around two out of three of the unalienable rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence.
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That is what the whole concept of unalienable individual rights means, and sumptuary laws, especially in the form of prohibition, were something they continually warned about.
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But the Declaration of Independence does not say that government should pursue the happiness of its citizens, only that it should secure its citizens' unalienable right to pursue it for themselves.
Although our Creator endowed each of us with the unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, as is all too evident, he did not guarantee us the exercise of those rights.
But, when is the last time you thought about or discussed the importance of liberty, the second of the three unalienable rights the authors of the Declaration of Independence included in that oft-quoted sentence.
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.
When we depute to local police departments the power to shoot an aggressor against the life or property of another, that police power derives entirely from the universal, unalienable right of every person to defend his or her rights.
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