I have given up trying to reason with people who are fixated on the loony notion that the Declaration of Independence is a jurisprudential document in our legal system.
In fact, the Declaration ranks somewhere below the Federalist Papers.
While the Declaration of Independence is unquestionably the most eloquent statement of the basis for human freedom ever penned, it’s not the law.
While the Declaration of Independence is unquestionably the most eloquent statement of the basis for human freedom ever penned, it’s not the law.
It falls somewhere in the old statement that you can lead a mule to water but you cannot make him drink.