Posted on 12/14/2005 6:19:00 PM PST by SJackson
Actually, our founding fathers asserted that it was "self-evident" that men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. Any rights that do not come from the Creator were not deemed unalienable, because the State, a King, or the People for that matter, could take them away as well as grant them.
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