Declaration of Independece:
"are endowed by their creator by inaliable rights"
Meaning that free people are BORN with rights, natural rights not given by government, but are a birthright from God (nature,creator)
What the Bill of Rights does is also write down certain of these rights that come from being born a free human.
The second amendment says that the security of a free state is dependent upon the right of a person to own and carry arms, it was understood that this right of arms is one that someone is born with, not a right granted by government, and that this right the free states are dependent upon for their very security, that a free state can call upon its free citizens to muster as an armed militia. A militia is not paid, and does not have government issued weapons. The National Guard is not a militia.
OUR BIRTHRIGHT AS A FREE PEOPLE COMES FROM A HIGHER POWER THAN GOVERNMENT, AND OUR GOVERNMENT DOES NOT GRANT US RIGHTS, THEY ARE OURS.
The phrase "under God" in the pledge of allegiance is a reference also to this legal concept of our nation being under the "natural law" where people possess rights and those rights are not grants from government to be seized at will. When governments seek to sieze natural rights from free people, they tyrannical and should be opposed by free people, this was the belief of the founders of this nation.
Realize that the attempt to take out "under God" is an attack upon the legal framework that rights are not granted by government. What the ulimate aim of these rights confiscators is, 1. eliminate natural rights 2. proclaim rights come from government grants 3. take away those government granted rights.
Fight with all you have to take on the movement to ruin our pledge, our rights. We are ultimately fighting for our birthright as a free people.
Was that really addressed at me?
I basically agree, and nothing in my post contradicts it. If it is the government that determines it, it is not by right but by permission. Rights are not endowed by government, but should be protected by it.