Natural Rights

The Founders of our great nation had the correct understanding of the principle of natural rights. In the Declaration of Independence they declared:

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. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Governments are not instituted to confer or to take away rights, but to secure them. The Founders stated that the Creator endows all men with the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

When government begins to assert itself and claims that it has the power or intention to confer or deny any kind of right, we must push back, for this is not the role of government. Our federal government is massively out of control, and has far overextended itself from the original intents of our forefathers. Tyranny always begins to gain strength through its feigned intention of creating equality of outcomes and results. We must not fall prey to this seductive and false promise.

As a nation we have many problems that require solutions, but let us not surrender our liberty to those who seek to exercise power and authority; and let us promote liberty by making our voices heard, stemming the expansion of governmental power, and advocating a limited government that only exercises the authority granted to it under our Constitution.