"-- We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness --"
Great concept, -- one that still makes perfect sense if modified as below:
'-- We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are born equal, that they are endowed with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness --'
Did not the Founding Fathers themselves put God and family first above country in the very fact that they formed this nation?
I think the Founding Fathers put our Constitutions principles, our rule of law, above all in the forming of this nation.
People and/or families have many different concepts of God. Much of the political strife of Europe was based on that fact. -- Our Constitution was designed, in part, to end those differences.
You yourself want to change the intent of the founders.
Interesting... I want to explore this further but must tend to my primitive worship ritual and then the family farm South of here until this evening late.
But I do want to continue....
If so, it failed. We still have differences of belief in this country. May I suggest that the Constitution wasn't designed, in part, to end the differences in concept of God, but to allow the freedom of religious expression; not the establishment of a government sponsored religion: Amendment I: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;...".
Nowhere do I read in this a Constitutional role in 'end[ing] those differences'.