Note that it is the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God that entitle our separate and equal station from other lands that might oppress us. Like it or not, Atheists or whatever, it is Nature's God's rules we live under or is it more apt to say, "that we should live under."
Then, we come to the most important phrases ever written by Man from his free will.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. -- That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
First, our founders held the statements they made for all posterity to be the truths that are self-evident, which means patently obvious. As we will see, the premise is that people are independent beings, and not, in my terminology, genetically created as an extension of another's will.
As many of us know, Mankind spent 6,000 years battling to live in freedom. Oppression has been Man's plight, a fact that has slowed down his self-actualizing development for who knows how many generations. Finally, a few fed up and brave souls established America as the land of the free. It was as if Nature's God, his Laws, and prophecies guided our forefather's minds and actions.
(Author's Note: You know, Folks, when one studies the founding of America, it is hard to ignore our forefathers' search for religious freedom, as it was one of the prime reasons for running or should I say "sailing" from merry old tyrannical England. They wished, in part, to escape the Church of England that held the power of life and death over their subjects, the British people.)
Next, the Declaration states, "all men are created equal." It does NOT say, as has been noted many times previously, that all men are created equal unless elected/appointed to public office. It does NOT, in other words, say officials are by their mere election suddenly above the Law and supreme to the people that elected them.
Instead, the Declaration continues with, "that they [all the people] are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights". Unalienable means "inalienable", which in turn means (by my thesaurus) unchallengeable, absolute, immutable, not able to be forfeited, unassailable, indisputable, and undeniable.
Note: "Not able to be forfeited' is important for future discussions of the chanceries called traffic court, municipal court, county court, and other quasi courts."
Unalienable and inalienable, however, have another extremely important meaning, especially with governing bodies politic committing many high crimes against the people, from grand larceny theft and sale of stolen property to treason. Read the below meanings given in Bouvier's Law Dictionary and then ask yourself about the sales of our public roads to foreign entities. Just what the hell is going on? Where does government get off selling our stuff? If this not theft, sale of stolen property, racketeering, a whole bunch of other crimes, and, most of all, treason, an act punishable by death, then just what is it?
UNALIENABLE. The state of a thing or right which cannot be sold. 2. Things which are not in commerce, as public roads, are in their nature unalienable. Some things are unalienable, in consequence of particular provisions in the law forbidding their sale or transfer, as pensions granted by the government. The natural rights of life and liberty are unalienable.
INALIENABLE. This word is applied to those things, the property of which cannot be lawfully transferred from one person to another. Public highways and rivers are of this kind; there are also many rights which are inalienable, as the rights of liberty, or of speech.
We must also relate this to such actions as governments making deals with foreign companies to coerce our people into compliance with rules controlling transportation of goods, not our private, non-commercial travel by right. I speak, of course, of red light and speed cameras used to generate revenues, and for no other reason, as we cannot commit true crimes against an artificial entity, such as a governing body politic. Such acts are de facto governmental criminal coercion and theft, amongst many other violations of Law and statutes.
Anyway, back the point. One might say that what has been granted by our Creator cannot be put asunder by the written rules of man. Essentially this is to state that only an individual man or woman can allow the oppression of his/her rights. An example of this is the case in which a business owner demands certain behaviors on the job that one must agree to abide with, or not be hired or lose their job.
Please note use of the term "oppression". Then, remember this statement of truth. No one can take your rights from you.
The Declaration continues with, "that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
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