Really?
RJS you need to get over to the Hillsdale College site and sign up for the course on the Constitution. Your argument is false. Educate yourself.
Really? Are you trying to say that the DoI has some force of law or that the Constitution declares that our rights come directly from God?
I don’t need the Hillsdale course, as good as it is. I have taken numerous courses over the years on the Constitution, its framers, and their writings as well as reading and studying those documents and writings. The Hillsdale course like any other course presents the view of the scholar who writes and/or conducts the course which is no different than any other course I’ve taken. The approach and view of the subject are of course colored by the writer/presenters viewpoint. With each course I’ve taken and everything I’ve read throughout my lifetime I have never found anything in the Constitution that comes close to stating that our rights come from God. The fact is that our Constitutional rights are based in part on the various denominational interpretations of faith in God as each individual framer understood them as well as common law, and traditions of moral codes that go back to the beginning of recorded history. In that sense, you could say that the Constitution is based in part on the principles of faith and belief in God.