The Founders thought those rights stated in the Declaration to be self evident. Went so far as to call them 'truths'. And noted that when governments become destructive of those ends, it was within the rights of those so governed to change that government. They felt that strongly about that which you claim has 'no legal weight' that they pledged lives and fortunes in a desperate gamble and rebelled against the strongest nation on the planet.
Only to have those 'truths' dismissed as 'having no legal weight'. The very foundations of the nation has 'no legal weight' to some on this very board, and to those vultures in black robes that infest our 'legal' system.
I'm stunned.
I am saying that the Declaration of Independence is not a law, nothing more, nothing less.
If the Declaration of Independence carried the weight of law, then why would we need the Constitution, or anything else? Because we, as a people, have never been able to agree what those self-evident truths are.
If I claim that my pursuit of happiness entitles me to run naked in the streets it that allowed? No, because the law, agreed upon the local people of my community, says no.
If we are saying that this issue is big enough that we are willing to go back to square one, issue a second Declaration of Independence with all the ramifications that implies, then so be it.
Do we form a new government because of this case?