"We hold these truths to be self-evident...all men are...
endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. That to secure these rights, governments
are instituted among men."
"What are those unalienable rights with which we are endowed? They may be described in many ways, but English jurist Sir William Blackstone wrote in 1766, ".these may be reduced to three principal articles:
- the right of personal security (life);
- the right of personal liberty; and,
- the right of private property...."
So-called "intellectual" "progressives," such as Obama, those who taught and influenced him, those who advise him, as well as Leahy, show no grounding in the principles of the Constitution's foundations in the wisdom of the ages, as enunciated by Blackstone and America's Founders. That Constitution was not to be used by men to expand government. It was "the People's" "chain" (Jefferson) to bind down political (legislative and executive) will of those who would exceed its limits on their power. The works of Sir William Blackstone, along with the 85 essays of THE FEDERALIST, according to Jefferson, were to be used for the study of law at the University of Virginia. Does it appear that those who attempt to "change" America from its foundations in liberty are using those those works as the basis of their understanding of America's basic law? "Man, considered as a creature, must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator. . . . This will of his Maker is called the law of nature. . . . This law of nature, being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God, Himself, is of course, superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe to all countries, and at all times, no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this." - Sir William Blackstone, "Commentaries on the Laws of England" "On every question of construction [of the Constitution] let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or intended against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed." - -Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Johnson, 12 June 1823
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