“The DOI is the fundamental basis for our Country as well as the Constitution, all historians as well as Constitutional scholars recognize that.”
So are a million other documents and principles. Not to say that the DOI isn’t more famous and more important than most. But it has no legal standing, if much historical standing. Of course there would be no U.S. if the colonists had not declared their independence. However, the Constitution, which is the fundamental law of our land, did not grow out of the Declaration. There was no gradual constitutional evolution as in Britain. The Constitution (illegally) replaced the preceeding form of government all at once.
Cheney never said he supported gay marriage....
I don't know if that has ever been legally decided, however, the premise of the Declaration is that men derive their rights from a creator, they are equal, and have certain inalienable rights, life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
The Constitution was written to prohibit the Government from intruding on those rights, among many other things. So if the Constitution protect those ideals, I would assume that it would have legal standing because every law that is on the books is base on one of those three premises (supoosed to be anyway).
I dunno, seems like six of one or a half dozen of another, either way they're both being torn to shreds.
Baloney. This is a modern myth. The Declaration is part of the organic law of the United States.
The organic laws of the United States of America are included in the U.S. Code. These documents include the United States Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Northwest Ordinance, and the U.S. Constitution.[1] These documents comprise the very first part of the United States Code, wherein lies the collected statutes of the United States.[1]