I’m late to this thread and column. Yet, I will amazingly be the first to recall that according to our Declaration of Independence the purpose of government is to secure our unalienable, Natural Rights given to us by God. The ratio of Deists to Evangelicals to Episcopalians, etc among our framers is irrelevant. The Declaration set forth the philosophy of our founding, the Constitution put it into practice. No other nation has taken 2,000 years of evolving thought regarding a citizen’s relationship to government and put it into practice. We are a unique nation founded on the principle of man’s Natural Rights.
Everyone read “5000 year leap”.
It lays out the underlying principles on which this country and our Constitution were created.