They were instituted to secure the unalienable rights of men.
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" He then states plainly: "Unalienable rights are by nature universal.
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As they see it, they're simply protecting unalienable constitutional rights.
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Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among them is [sic] life,
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Our system of government was founded upon the ideas of equality and unalienable rights.
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Our founding fathers wrote about a Creator who gave all human beings unalienable rights.
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He laid out his plan to guarantee the third unalienable right: the pursuit of happiness.
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Meanwhile, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced the formation of a Commission on Unalienable Rights.
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Are those rights "unalienable," as the President said -- or "inalienable," as we so often see, hear and read?
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We believe in certain unalienable rights that attach to all persons – life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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At the heart of any democracy, is the free and unalienable right to participate in the electoral process.
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We must all have the ability—and the unalienable rights—to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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David Wolfe, chief executive of Leesa, said he was all for the unalienable right to an in-home trial.
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Both she and James see childbearing as labor, and view abortion as people's unalienable right to abstain from it.
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The Declaration of Independence, whose "unalienable rights" individualists are so quick to claim for themselves, dealt with rights similarly.
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We have lots of challenges with China, but this is about their fundamental unalienable rights for those particular individuals.
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That actually doesn't respect the rule of law and human dignity and the unalienable rights about which I spoke.
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It became a place of activism, of street politics, based on a shared belief in the value of unalienable rights.
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When you leave 22 blockbuster biopic Rocketman, you will believe an unalienable truth: Leading man Taron Egerton is a star.
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So I ask you, why are my son's unalienable rights not protected as fiercely as the right to bear arms?
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That's one of the unalienable truths in U.S. politics, and it's been proven again as the April 15 filing deadline approaches.
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They held life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to be "unalienable rights" possessed equally by all members of their new nation.
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The answer is in recognizing those contradictions—and recognizing, more deeply, that our unalienable rights are indeed "by nature universal" and universalizable.
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Why should Americans have the unalienable right to wait till they get sick (at least during open enrollment) before buying health insurance?
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There is God, a higher power or Nature's God, who grants us the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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In our Declaration of Independence, the Founders declared that everyone is endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, including and especially life.
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America was founded upon a set of unalienable rights and principles, among them the rights to free speech, to assembly, and to vote.
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Although we often honor it in the breach, our founding idea remains: that each person here is precious and born with unalienable rights.
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And it is creating a Commission on Unalienable Rights, which gay-rights groups fear is intended to narrow the scope of American advocacy.
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Pompeo named Harvard Law School professor Mary Ann Glendon, a former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, to head the Commission on Unalienable Rights.
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He constantly returned to the core belief of America's founding in 1776, that we are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights.
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Each contradicts the West's foundational commitments to universalism, representation, unalienable rights, and an epistemology built on fact and reason, not clicks and feelings.
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When their unalienable right to be safe in school is violated, it's just … it was life-changing to be that close to those parents.
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Washington (CNN)Several human rights organizations sued Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the State Department on Friday over the Commission on Unalienable Rights.
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"We need only recall the words of the Declaration of Independence, its insistence that all men and women have 'certain unalienable rights,'" he said.
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" America's Founders believed passionately that the government had a special role to play to secure "the unalienable rights" to equality and the "pursuit of happiness.
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Arising from political compromises between post-war progressives and some of the world's worst tyrannies, the UDHR starts with a list of traditional, unalienable rights.
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Pompeo named Harvard Law School professor Mary Ann Glendon, a former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, to head the 10-member Commission on Unalienable Rights.
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But while you might not have a criminal connection to such individuals, you do share at least one thing in common: you both have unalienable rights.
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It's the conviction that we are all created equal, endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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It's the conviction that we are all created equal, endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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It's the conviction that we are all created equal, endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights, among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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" He added: "I don't think it's your unalienable right as a United States citizen to allow your child to catch and transmit a potentially fatal infection.
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He has also previously linked it to the archaic phrase "unalienable right", which conservatives use to denote the rights to liberty and property enshrined in America's founding documents.
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All thirteen new states soon provided themselves with written constitutions establishing virtually the same principle: it was to secure the unalienable rights of men that governments were instituted.
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Somehow (white) people think protesting inequality in a country that loves to talk about how all men are created equal and endowed with certain unalienable rights is objectionable.
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This nation was founded on the premise that all people are created equal and should be granted the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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On the day when the unborn child is recognized as a human being with unalienable rights, we will have advanced one giant step toward humanity outside the womb.
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Under the auspices of a new "Commission on Unalienable Rights," Pompeo and a cabal of anti-gay crusaders seek to further roll back recognition of LGBTQI rights abroad.
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Yet since her former student Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state, announced that she will lead a new "Commission on Unalienable Rights", both she and it have been savaged.
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They remain dedicated to the belief that all men and women are created equal with "certain unalienable rights," including "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" — whatever that is.
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Our Declaration of Independence boldly states that each of us is endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, and first among these is the right to life itself.
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That they are endowed by their creator with certain — — with certain unalienable rights, that among these — — that among these are life — — life — — liberty — — liberty — — and the pursuit of happiness.
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They remain dedicated to the belief that all men and women are created equal with "certain unalienable rights," including "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" (whatever that means).
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"The United States will always remain a staunch supporter of those who strive for their unalienable rights and human dignity," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement.
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My own nation's story began with simple words: All men are created equal and endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights including life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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Then, like now, the nation seemed to be spiraling toward a civil war, splintering over who would receive the unalienable rights guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence.
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But that was before he saw armed white men strolling through the aisles exerting what gun proponents describe as their "unalienable" rights to carry firearms into public spaces including retail stores.
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"What does it mean to say or claim that something is, in fact, a human right," Pompeo said at the State Department Monday, as he unveiled the Commission on Unalienable Rights.
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Of all the controversial proposals already being debated by a Republican Congress, let's hope passing this part of the budget—the one that guarantees an unalienable human right—is a given.
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Now that the referendum has passed, the United States, which was created because its Founders wanted to escape such tyranny, will have to deal with another people's unalienable right to freedom.
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Our Constitution states that all Americans have the unalienable right to free speech, to speak out on topics of conscience and conviction, and it's time that we uphold those founding principles.
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" It then continues by quoting James Madison's observation that freedom of religion "is in its nature an unalienable right," since our devotion to God "is precedent … to the Claims of Civil Society.
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" And what editor would dare touch this: "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.
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These are unalienable rights that we have, we are born with these rights and these people don't have it and they don't even have the concept that this is against their rights.
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Our Founding Fathers cherished the belief "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights" and enshrined this belief in the Declaration of Independence.
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It is important to me that transgender people can access health care without discrimination, because I am a transgender person with a disability, and the proposed rule will compromise my unalienable rights.
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"We are all created equal and endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights," they continued, referencing the Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson, who was famously a resident in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Though the final version of the Declaration of Independence, the one written on parchment and currently housed at the Department of State, uses "unalienable," there are existing copies and drafts with conflicting usage.
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And he denied that the United States was blocking migrants who want the same unalienable rights — freedom and equality — that he had minutes earlier proudly described as being protected by the United States.
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The argument begins with Strauss's observation that the Declaration of Independence, with its assertion of "self-evident" truths and "unalienable Rights," was a classic statement of natural right, in keeping with Aristotle and Plato.
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For a time, the founding principles of American society — the "unalienable rights" of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" — seemed like they would be unable to adjudicate between the competing, often clashing, interests.
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"We need only recall the words of the Declaration of Independence, in particular its insistence that all men and women have 'certain unalienable Rights,' and that among them is the right to 'Liberty,'" Breyer wrote.
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He pointed out that the phrase, "All men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights," would have been unintelligible to Plato or Aristotle or anybody raised in a hierarchical society.
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The right to a moving picture, in its most apropos and complete form, is one of those unalienable rights of moviegoers, like the right to whip unpopped popcorn kernels at the heads of people using cellphones.
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In such an atmosphere, there is something wonderful in the idea of a court in this once great democracy replacing an outdated Victorian law with something as simple and attractive as an unalienable right to love.
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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.
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He has established a Commission on Unalienable Rights, chaired by a conservative Catholic law professor, Mary Ann Glendon, with a brief to consider which human entitlements are clearly laid down by the American constitution and international conventions.
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I will raise my soon-to-arrive newborn as a proud American who believes in the ideals that we are all created equal and endowed with the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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As we pray for Charlottesville, we are reminded of the fundamental truths recorded by that city's most prominent citizen in the Declaration of Independence: we are all created equal and endowed by our Creator with unalienable right.
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"This is an attempt to pull back a US human rights vision that we've had for decades and create this new vision that uses these new terms like 'unalienable rights' or 'natural rights' or 'natural law,' " Kadden said.
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Image: Gizmodo / ShutterstockWe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all millennials* are lazy fucks, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Likes, Listicles, and the pursuit of Intercourse.
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Our unalienable right to life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness --- those rights were stripped from college students in Blacksburg and Santa Barbara, and from high schoolers at Columbine, and from first-graders in Newtown. First-graders.
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LINDA BIEGEL SCHULMAN, MOTHER OF SCOTT BIEGEL: Dana, the Second Amendment was ratified in 1791, the Declaration of Independence was written in 1776, which gave my son the unalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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"Kashmiris possess an unalienable right to decide their future, as per the UN Charter, not just choosing between India and Pakistan but for independence as well," explained Siddiqi, a former leader of the pro-independence Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF).
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"As we pray for Charlottesville, we are reminded of the fundamental truths recorded by the city's most prominent citizen in the Declaration of Independence: we are all created equal and endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights," the Bushes' statement continued.
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" He then explained that Charlottesville is the home to Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the iconic words, "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.
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"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," Khan read from a sheaf of papers he'd picked up at a bookstore in Lahore.
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"Today we have taken a giant step forward toward the ideal that all of us, with no exceptions, are not only created equal, but we each have the unalienable right to pursue our own happiness," said Dyer, 78, who officiated the ceremony.
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In them, he explained that the State Department will be guided by the longstanding values of freedom, democracy, individual liberty, and human dignity, as well as by the enduring conviction that all men are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights.
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" After all, the U.S. Declaration of Independence reads, "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.
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Now, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is establishing a Commission on Unalienable Rights to "provide fresh thinking about human rights discourse where such discourse has departed from our nation's founding principles of natural law and natural rights," according to a notice in the Federal Register.
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"The president and I call on leaders of freedom-loving nations across the world to condemn Iran's unelected dictators and defend the Iranian people's unalienable right to chart their own future and determine their own destiny," Pence wrote in an opinion piece for The Washington Post.
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"The president and I call on leaders of freedom-loving nations across the world to condemn Iran's unelected dictators and defend the Iranian people's unalienable right to chart their own future and determine their own destiny," Pence wrote in an opinion piece for The Washington Post.
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China's communist leaders know that freedom, democracy and the rule of law are political contagions that could infect the vast Chinese population — Tibetans, Uighurs, Falun Gong, Christians aspire to the same "unalienable rights" that the people of Hong Kong and Taiwan are determined to preserve for themselves.
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If, as a nation, we truly believe "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," then let us be above the brutality and hatred of the Islamic State.
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The State Department's Commission on Unalienable Rights, a body of some 15 academics, legal scholars, and nonprofit leaders advising Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about human rights, was announced in late May without input from human rights groups or even the department's existing Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor.
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The scientific, moral and theological battle between life as an "endowed unalienable" right and the evolutionary view that we are just material and energy shaped by pure chance in a random universe with no author of life, no purpose for living and no destination after we die has been won in Ireland by the evolutionists.
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Pompeo said the committee will conduct "one of the most profound reexaminations of the unalienable rights in the world since the 1948 Universal Declaration," of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations, declaring that "all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights" and are entitled to a series of rights.
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What this sad story teaches us is they also don't speak the language of American values: of the central statement at the core of our founding, 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."
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Explain. No. 2: The Limits of Freedom, 1776-1808 The text of this section begins with the following lines: 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.
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"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" — Thomas Jefferson, writing the Declaration of Independence, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky" — President William Jefferson Clinton.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads "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," Thomas Jefferson famously jotted down as he drafted the Declaration of Independence on July 1776.
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From one of his opinions as a state supreme court justice, as noted by New York magazine's Ed Kilgore: Because a human life with a full genetic endowment comes into existence at the moment of conception, the self-evident truth that "all men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights" encompasses the moment of conception.
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Based on campaign rhetoric, I would have to pursue my unalienable rights from an internment camp (at worst) or while being banned from plane travel (at best); with my husband being stopped-and-frisked while I worry about him being shot by police; or with my private parts up for grabs while I struggle to break gender barriers at work.
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" "Our country was founded on a principle Trump often seems unacquainted with," Rubin wrote, before referencing one of the most famous lines in the Declaration of Independence: "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.
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In Monday's Wall Street Journal, Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoCotton warns China: Crackdown on Hong Kong would be 'grave miscalculation' Pompeo expresses concern over North Korea missile tests Pompeo acknowledges 'places where ISIS is more powerful today' MORE unveiled the department's new Commission on Unalienable Rights, more than a month after news of the commission first broke.
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"I stipulate that the record reflect precisely my words, which are those of a man who loves his country and all its people and will continue to work for the betterment of our society for all Americans, who are all endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights and are equal under the law," King added in the letter, dated Feb. 6.
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Cookies and Cream may not be up there with "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 ...." But like Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin and John Adams and George Washington -- granted, he was already fighting the British up in Boston that long ago summer -- we like our ice cream.
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If we are to be the nation captured by Key – the "land of the free and the home of the brave" – if we are to continue in our national quest to provide all with the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, we cannot expect our military to be the only ones who honor and respect the symbols and principles of our country.
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A coalition of Democratic senators, human rights groups and theologians is calling on Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoCotton warns China: Crackdown on Hong Kong would be 'grave miscalculation' Pompeo expresses concern over North Korea missile tests Pompeo acknowledges 'places where ISIS is more powerful today' MORE to disband the Trump administration's new Commission on Unalienable Rights, warning it will undermine LGBTQ and women's rights, according to NBC News.
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