[Montana4Jesus]

"A history buff and one who believes in strict construction when it comes to the constitution. "

So certain "unalienable rights" in our D of I are no longer? I would say that the Liberty we have been given by God allows me to vote my conscience which is driven, not by my "religion" but by my faith so I think I will vote and probably along the same lines as you.

[RJS1950]

Did I say that the rights expressed in the D of I are no longer? Strict construction addresses the constitution, its Bill of Rights and the amendments. The D of I addresses the grievances and concepts of liberty that were the reasons why the colonies wanted to split from the crown and was not a document of law. The writers of the Declaration had hopes that the king would accede to their requests, but he did not. After the war and after the Articles of Confederation the framers wrote the Constitution and wrote it to embody the concepts of the D of I into law.