Governments are instituted among men because the natural law can be and is violated. The government’s role is to protect those rights. Not to manipulate or create others.
AMEN to that, dear wagglebee!!!
All thanks and praise be to God!
From Trenchard & Gordon, Cato's Letters (1721):
All men are born free; Liberty is a Gift which they receive from God; nor can they alienate the same by Consent, though possibly they may forfeit it by crimes....Cato's Letters, published out of London, were avidly read in the American colonies up to the time of the Revolution. These Letters clearly reflect, not only Locke, the "Father of the Glorious Revolution" of 1688 (and world-class political philosopher); but the thought and belief of the Framers of the U.S. Constitution.
Liberty is the power which every man has over his own Actions, and the Right to enjoy the Fruit of his Labor, Art, and Industry, as far as by it he hurts not the Society, or any Member of it, by taking from any Member, or by hindering him from enjoying what he himself enjoys.
The fruits of a Man's honest Industry are the just rewards of it, ascertained to him by natural and eternal Equity, as is his Title to use them in the Manner which he thinks fit: And thus, with the above Limitations, every Man is sole Lord and Arbiter of his own private Actions and Property....
Thank you so very much, dear wagglebee, for this most excellent post!
This passage perfectly states why euthanasia is also a violation of our God-given rights. We CANNOT legally or morally forfeit our right to life.