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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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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Meanwhile, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced the formation of a Commission on Unalienable Rights.
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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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We must all have the ability—and the unalienable rights—to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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" 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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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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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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"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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"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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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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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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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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The distinction between alienable and unalienable rights was introduced by Francis Hutcheson. In his Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725), Hutcheson foreshadowed the Declaration of Independence, stating: “For wherever any Invasion is made upon unalienable Rights, there must arise either a perfect, or external Right to Resistance. . . . Unalienable Rights are essential Limitations in all Governments.” Hutcheson, however, placed clear limits on his notion of unalienable rights, declaring that “there can be no Right, or Limitation of Right, inconsistent with, or opposite to the greatest public Good.
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The Commission on Unalienable Rights was created under the U.S. State Department in July 2019.
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Together with his protegé David Tse- Chie Pan, he serves on the U.S. State Department's Commission on Unalienable Rights convened by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and led by Harvard professor Mary Ann Glendon.
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As the American Declaration of Independence in 1776 expressed it, natural law taught that the people were "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights" and could alter or abolish government "destructive" of those rights.
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Palmer opposes legal abortion and says that the Declaration of Independence was pro-life in its statements on "all men" having "unalienable Rights" to "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." As a result of his anti-abortion voting record, Palmer has a zero percent rating from Planned Parenthood.
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136 Thomas Jefferson, arguably echoing Locke, appealed to unalienable rights 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."Pangle, The Spirit of Modern Republicanism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988), 209. The Lockean idea that governments need the consent of the governed was also fundamental to the Declaration of Independence, as the American Revolutionaries used it as justification for their separation from the British crown.Cf. Robert Middlekauff (2005),The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789, Revised and Expanded Edition, Oxford University Press, , pp.
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Lessig asks citizens to engage congress, the president and the constitution. He suggests that citizens ask legislators to support publicly funded elections, to limit and make transparent independent political expenditures, and to reaffirm that "unalienable rights" belong to natural persons only. He suggests that citizens further attempt to elect a presidential candidate that will lead the charge for change. To this end, he supports .
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177 (Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.) mentioned in the United States Declaration of Independence. Other historians, according to Edward Ashbee, consider that it was not the tradition of "Freeborn Englishmen", as espoused by Lilburne, Overton, John Milton and John Locke, that was the major influence on the concept of unalienable rights in the United States Declaration of Independence, but rather "an attempt to recreate 'civic republicanism' established in classical Greece and Rome".
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The standard of equality that states everyone is created equal at birth is called ontological equality. This type of equality can be seen in many different places like the United States Declaration of Independence. This early document, which states many of the values of the United States of America, has this idea of equality embedded in it. It clearly states that "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights".
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Halvorssen has a specialty on matters regarding dictatorships, human trafficking, slavery, and threats to democracy. He has lectured widely on the subject of human rights including at Harvard Law School, the New York City Junto, the United Nations Association in New York, and the American Enterprise Institute. Halvorssen has also spoken at the British parliament.. Alongside Harvard Law School dean Martha Minow he testified to the U.S. Commission on Unalienable Rights of the U.S. State Department.
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This bigotry is counter to all this country stands for. There can be no moral ambiguity." Former presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush stated that, "America must always reject racial bigotry, anti-Semitism, and hatred in all forms. 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 rights.
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However, despite this, the Addis Ababa peace agreement was signed in 1972. Gordon Muortat did not agree with the contents and terms of the agreement, calling it a sell out and fraudulent. He believed that the Southern people were not given the chance to self-determination and a return to civil war will be needed in order for South Sudanese to achieve their true unalienable rights. He continued the protest against the agreement and remained in exile moving to the UK.
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The text of the Declaration of Independence stated that all men are created equal (and thus become equal before the law), and had unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies They had also chosen a republican form of government, instead of keeping a monarchic one. Even more, the fact that Spain aided the colonies in their struggle against Britain weakened the argument that ending allegiance to the mother country could be considered a crime.
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The current Constitution of Mongolia (, Mongol Ulsyn Ündsen Khuuli, "Fundamental Law of Mongolia") was adopted on January 13, 1992, put into force on February 12, and amended in 1999, 2000 and 2019. The new constitution established a representative democracy in Mongolia, guaranteeing freedom of religion, rights, travel, expression, unalienable rights, government setup, election cycle, and other matters. It was written after the Mongolian Revolution of 1990 and dissolved the People's Republic of Mongolia. It consists of a preamble followed by six chapters divided into 70 articles.
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Human rights in the United States comprise a series of rights which are legally protected by the Constitution of the United States (particularly the Bill of Rights),Brennan, William, J., ed. Schwartz, Bernard, The Burger Court: counter-revolution or confirmation?, Oxford University Press US, 1998, , page 10 state constitutions, treaty and customary international law, legislation enacted by Congress and state legislatures, and state referenda and citizen's initiatives. The Federal Government has, through a ratified constitution, guaranteed unalienable rights to its citizens and (to some degree) non- citizens.
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As we pray for Charlottesville, we are all 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 rights. We know these truths to be everlasting because we have seen the decency and greatness of our country." Their statement came as President Trump was facing controversy over his statements about the rally. Subsequently, Bush gave a speech in New York where he noted of the current political climate, "Bigotry seems emboldened.
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The Democratic Green Party of Rwanda (French: Parti vert démocratique du Rwanda) is a green political party in Rwanda, established in 2009. The party was registered in August 2013, but too late to contest the 2013 parliamentary elections. Its platform emphasizes unity, non-violence, social justice, participatory democracy, and calls for subsidized prices for agricultural produce. It believes that the unalienable rights of the people include "the right to life, liberty, peaceful assembly, expression, worship and the pursuit of happiness", and that these rights are granted by God.
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This Article contains 24 sections, of which the longest is on religious freedom. The first section starts "All people are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural, inherent and unalienable rights." The beginning is similar to the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780 which used the phrase "born free and equal", the basis for which slavery was abolished in that state in 1820. The section on religious freedom starts with "all individuals have a natural and unalienable right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences".
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Custom also plays a role. Implied or unenumerated rights are rights that courts may find to exist even though not expressly guaranteed by written law or custom; one example is the right to privacy in the United States, and the Ninth Amendment explicitly shows that there are other rights that are also protected. The United States Declaration of Independence states that people have unalienable rights including "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness". It is considered by some that the sole purpose of government is the protection of life, liberty and property.
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As all persons were created equally free, all governments needed the consent of the governed.Jeremy Waldron, God, Locke, and Equality, pp. 21–43, 120 These Lockean ideas were fundamental to the United States Declaration of Independence, which also deduced human rights from the biblical belief in creation: “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.” These rights were theonomous ideas (theonomy).
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Prioritisation of rights for pragmatic reasons is however a widely accepted necessity. Human rights expert Philip Alston argues: He, and others, urge caution with prioritisation of rights: Some human rights are said to be "inalienable rights." The term inalienable rights (or unalienable rights) refers to "a set of human rights that are fundamental, are not awarded by human power, and cannot be surrendered." The adherence to the principle of indivisibility by the international community was reaffirmed in 1995: This statement was again endorsed at the 2005 World Summit in New York (paragraph 121).
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On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, declared the independence of the colonies by adopting the resolution from Richard Henry Lee, that stated: On July 4, 1776 they adopted the Declaration of Independence and this date is celebrated as the nation's birthday. On September 9 of that year, Congress officially changed the nation's name to the United States of America. Until this point, the nation was known as the "United Colonies of America". The new nation was founded on Enlightenment ideals of liberalism and what Thomas Jefferson called the unalienable rights to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness".
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Two major revolutions occurred during the 18th century in the United States (1776) and in France (1789). The Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776 sets up a number of fundamental rights and freedoms. The later United States Declaration of Independence includes concepts of natural rights and famously states "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". Similarly, the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen defines a set of individual and collective rights of the people.
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Presaging the shift in thinking in the 19th century, Bentham famously dismissed the idea of natural rights as "nonsense on stilts". By way of contrast to the views of British nationals Burke and Bentham, the leading American revolutionary scholar James Wilson condemned Burke's view as "tyranny." The signers of the Declaration of Independence deemed it a "self- evident truth" that all men "are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights". In The Social Contract, Jean-Jacques Rousseau claims that the existence of inalienable rights is unnecessary for the existence of a constitution or a set of laws and rights.
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"Freeborn" is a term associated with political agitator John Lilburne (1614–1657), a member of the Levellers, a 17th-century English political party. As a word, "freeborn" means born free, rather than in slavery or bondage or vassalage. Lilburne argued for basic human rights that he termed "freeborn rights", which he defined as being rights that every human being is born with, as opposed to rights bestowed by government or by human law. John Lilburne's concept of freeborn rights, and the writings of Richard Overton another Leveller, may have influenced the concept of unalienable rights, cites Andrew Sharp 1983, p.
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Liberalism in the United States is a political and moral philosophy based on what liberals consider the unalienable rights of the individual. The fundamental liberal ideals of freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, the separation of church and state, the right to due process and equality under the law are widely accepted as a common foundation of liberalism. It differs from liberalism worldwide because the United States has never had a resident hereditary aristocracyLouis Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America, (1991) p. 4. and avoided much of the class warfare that characterized Europe.
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Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information war poster (1941–1945) "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" is a well-known phrase in the United States Declaration of Independence. Scanned image of the Jefferson's "original Rough draught" of the Declaration of Independence, written in June 1776, including all the changes made later by John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and other members of the committee, and by Congress. The phrase gives three examples of the unalienable rights which the Declaration says have been given to all humans by their creator, and which governments are created to protect.
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In 2016, Skinner served on President-elect Donald Trump's transition team for national security. She had a position as a senior advisor for the State Department but left the role after a few days. In August 2018, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced her as the new Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. State Department, and she was sworn in on September 4, 2018. She was given a coordinating role on the newly formed Commission on Unalienable Rights, whose creation was announced July 8, 2019. Skinner’s term at the State Department ended in August 2019.
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While the donatário assumed expenses of the settlement and economic development, he also benefited from various judicial and fiscal privileges, while the King maintained certain unalienable rights to safeguard the territorial and political unity of the Kingdom. Except for private land grants, the territory administrated by the donatário was turned over to settlers and the bestowed was responsible for all the expenses of the Captaincy. Almost dictatorial in their powers, the donatários were limited by the difficulties of the territories they governed. With the Brazilian territories, which were large, the donatários' obligations covered the governorship, expansion and settlement of the territory, necessitating a large labour force, security forces and administrators.
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Liberalism, the belief in freedom, equality, democracy and human rights, is historically associated with thinkers such as John Locke and Montesquieu. constitutionally limiting the power of the monarch, affirming parliamentary supremacy, passing the Bill of Rights and establishing the principle of "consent of the governed". The 1776 Declaration of Independence of the United States founded the nascent republic on liberal principles without the encumbrance of hereditary aristocracy—the declaration stated that "all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, among these life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness","The Constitution of the United States" (PDF). echoing John Locke's phrase "life, liberty, and property".
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The idea that certain rights are natural or inalienable also has a history dating back at least to the Stoics of late Antiquity, through Catholic law of the early Middle Ages, and descending through the Protestant Reformation and the Age of Enlightenment to today. The existence of natural rights has been asserted by different individuals on different premises, such as a priori philosophical reasoning or religious principles. For example, Immanuel Kant claimed to derive natural rights through reason alone. The United States Declaration of Independence, meanwhile, is based upon the "self-evident" truth that "all men are … endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights".
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Cruikshank, the court struck down the Enforcement Act, ruling that the states had to be relied on to protect citizens from attack by other private citizens. > The very highest duty of the States, when they entered into the Union under > the Constitution, was to protect all persons within their boundaries in the > enjoyment of these 'unalienable rights with which they were endowed by their > Creator.' Sovereignty, for this purpose, rests alone with the States. It is > no more the duty or within the power of the United States to punish for a > conspiracy to falsely imprison or murder within a State, than it would be to > punish for false imprisonment or murder itself.
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J.), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), and Chris Coons (D-Del.) wrote to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to "express our deep concern with the process and intent behind the Department of State’s recently announced Commission on Unalienable Rights...With deep reservations about the Commission, we request that you not take any further action regarding its membership or proposed operations without first consulting with congressional oversight and appropriations committees." On June 13, 2019, the U.S. House debated an en bloc amendment which included a provision to defund the Commission. On June 18, 2019, the U.S. House voted 231–187 in favor of the en bloc amendment.
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The draft began, "With deepest sorrow--yes even with holy indignation--have we German bishops learned of the deportation of non-Aryans in a manner that is scornful of all human rights. It is our holy duty to defend the unalienable rights of all men guaranteed by natural law." The end of the draft chided Hitler on the very issue of genocide: "We would not want to omit to say that meeting these previously mentioned stipulations would be the most certain way to deflate the crescendo of rumors regarding the mass death of the deported non-Aryans." The statement was not issued on the basis that it had already been asserted in 1942.
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They often favor Christian prayer in public schools and government funding for private Christian schools. Like most American political ideologies, conservatism originates from republicanism, which rejected aristocratic and monarchical government and upheld the principles of the United States Declaration of Independence ("... 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") and the United States Constitution (which established a federal republic under the rule of law). Conservative philosophy is also derived in part from the classical liberal tradition of the 18th and 19th centuries, which advocated for laissez-faire economics (i.e. economic freedom and deregulation).
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On July 4, 1776, Congress ratified the Declaration of Independence and distributed the document. Historians have considered it to be one of Jefferson's major achievements; the preamble is considered an enduring statement of human rights that has inspired people around the world. Its second sentence is the following: > 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. This has been called "one of the best-known sentences in the English language",Stephen E. Lucas, "Justifying America: The Declaration of Independence as a Rhetorical Document", in Thomas W. Benson, ed.
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On 20 September 2017, the Parliament of Transnistria unanimously approved a request to the United Nations for observer status. The request, sent to UN Secretary General António Guterres and President of the UN General Assembly Miroslav Lajčák, also asked the UN to establish a permanent international working group and to condemn actions which lead to "the violation of unalienable rights and freedom ... and ... the rise in tensions in the whole region". The request cited Palestine, which is not a member of the UN but has observer status. On 22 June 2018, Moldova submitted a UN resolution calling for the "complete and unconditional withdrawal of foreign military forces from the territory of the Republic of Moldova, including Transnistria".
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Greene and Pole, eds., A Companion to the American Revolution (2004) chapters 42, 48 Revolutionary era cartoon showing US sawing of the horn of a cow (symbolizing a break from British commerce) with a distressed Englishman watching as other European powers wait to collect milk. The cartoon represents the commercial status of the US during the Revolution. The American Revolution (1775–1783) brought a dedication to unalienable rights to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness", which emphasize individual liberty and economic entrepreneurship, and simultaneously a commitment to the political values of liberalism and republicanism, which emphasize natural rights, equality under the law for all citizens, civic virtue and duty, and promotion of the general welfare.
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In 1776, Thomas Jefferson proposed a philosophy of human rights inherent to all people in the Declaration of Independence, asserting 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." Historian Joseph J. Ellis calls the Declaration "the most quoted statement of human rights in recorded history". The first human rights organization in the Thirteen Colonies of British America, dedicated to the abolition of slavery, was formed by Anthony Benezet in 1775. A year later, the Declaration of Independence announced that the Thirteen Colonies regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.
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In the 17th century, Hugo Grotius put forward the concept that everyone has 'sovereign authority' over themselves but that they could alienate that natural right to the common good, an early social contract theory. In the 18th century, Hutcheson introduced a distinction between alienable and unalienable rights in the legal sense of the term. Rousseau published influential works on the same theme, and is also seen as having popularized a more psychological-social concept relating to alienation from a state of nature due to the expansion of civil society or the nation state. In the same century a law of alienation of affection was introduced for men to seek compensation from other men accused of taking away 'their' woman.
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Hutcheson's early Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725), introducing his "perennial association of unalienable rights with the collective right to resist oppressive government", served at Harvard College as a textbook as early as the 1730s. Thomas Jefferson's appeals to sentiment in the Declaration of Independence (broadcast in August 1776 by the Belfast News Letter) are thought to reflect Hutcheson's influence. Hutcheson's "benevolent theory" of morals supported concepts of Natural Law and of rights consistent with the case for limited and accountable government. As proposed by John Locke (1632-1704, whose Treatises on Government Drennan cited as his "prime authority on politics"), in England, the Glorious Revolution of 1688 was understood as an advance on broadly these principles.
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Its original purpose was to announce independence, and references to the text of the Declaration were few in the following years. Abraham Lincoln made it the centerpiece of his policies and his rhetoric, as in the Gettysburg Address of 1863. Since then, it has become a well-known statement on human rights, particularly its second sentence: > 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. This has been called "one of the best-known sentences in the English language",Stephen E. Lucas, "Justifying America: The Declaration of Independence as a Rhetorical Document", in Thomas W. Benson, ed.
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One of these interesting symbols is the box of human remains within the lower middle of the piece. Marx's explanation for the inclusion, “Those bones are dedicated to all the deadheads in Nebraska, the lazy people, the people satisfied with the status quo, the people who are stubbornly determined not to succeed, all who resist change.” He was chosen again in the spring of 1966 to create the mosaic “The Building of the Capitol” which was installed in October 1966. It included a representation of the 2nd State Capitol of Nebraska as well as a quote from the Declaration of Independence, “All men are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights among these are life liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”.
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United States Declaration of Independence, 1776, "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." The Catholic German Centre Party politician and diplomat Karl Friedrich von Savigny also thought so.He stated that "laws are not made but found", implying the existence of already existing natural laws. Its main modern thinker is Egyptian legal scholar and creator of the Egyptian Civil Code Al-Razzak Al-Sanhuri.Abd Al-Razzak Al-Sanhuri, Egyptian Civil Code, Article 1, 1949, «in the absence of any applicable legislation, the judge shall decide according to the custom and failing the custom, according to the principles of Islamic Law.
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Pompeo touts Christianity in his speech, describes how he applies his faith to his government work. The promotion of the speech by the State Department was met with criticism from those who find it disrespects the separation of church and state in the U.S. government.USA Today, "State Department website promotes Mike Pompeo speech on 'Being a Christian Leader'", October 14, 2019 The Times of Israel, "'My walk with Christ': Pompeo gives contentious speech on being Christian leader", October 12, 2019 Newsweek, "STATE DEPARTMENT'S PROMOTION OF 'BEING A CHRISTIAN LEADER' ON WEBSITE CRITICIZED FOR POTENTIAL VIOLATION OF CONSTITUTION ", October 14, 2019 He also created the Commission on Unalienable Rights, and created a faith-based employee affinity group that includes contractors.State Department's first-ever employee Christian faith group underscores Mike Pompeo's influence , Washington Post, November 1, 2019.
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After the election, Bush wrote a letter to president-elect Donald Trump in January 2017 to inform him that because of his poor health, he would not be able to attend Trump's inauguration on January 20; he gave him his best wishes. In August 2017, after the violence at Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, both Presidents Bush released a joint statement saying, "America must always reject racial bigotry, anti-Semitism, and hatred in all forms[. ...] As we pray for Charlottesville, we are all 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 rights." On April 17, 2018, Bush's wife Former First Lady Barbara Bush died at the age of 92, at her home in Houston, Texas.
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This version was used by Julian Boyd to create a transcript of Jefferson's draft, which reads: "We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent & inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness." The Committee of Five edited Jefferson's draft. Their version survived further edits by the whole Congress intact, and 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." A number of possible sources or inspirations for Jefferson's use of the phrase in the Declaration of Independence have been identified, although scholars debate the extent to which any one of them actually influenced Jefferson.
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It contended that "all men are created equal" with "certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness", and that "to secure these rights governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed", as well as listing the main colonial grievances against the crown.Greene and Pole, eds. A Companion to the American Revolution (2003) ch 32 July 4 ever since has been celebrated as the birthday of the United States. The Founding Fathers represented a cross-section of Patriot leadership. According to a study of the biographies of the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence: :The Signers came for the most part from an educated elite, were residents of older settlements, and belonged with a few exceptions to a moderately well-to-do class representing only a fraction of the population.
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The Declaration stated "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", echoing John Locke's phrase "life, liberty, and property".Declaration of Independence This view of human liberties, which originated from the European Enlightenment, postulates that fundamental rights are not granted by a divine or supernatural being to monarchs who then grant them to subjects, but are granted by a divine or supernatural being to each man (but not woman) and are inalienable and inherent. After the Revolutionary War, the former thirteen colonies went through a pre-government phase of more than a decade, with much debate about the form of government they would have. The United States Constitution, adopted in 1787 through ratification at a national convention and conventions in the colonies, created a republic that guaranteed several rights and civil liberties. However, it did not extend voting rights in the United States beyond white male property owners (about 6% of the population).
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In Cotting v. Godard, 183 U.S. 79 (1901), the United States Supreme Court stated: :The first official action of this nation declared the foundation of government in these 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, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." While such declaration of principles may not have the force of organic law, or be made the basis of judicial decision as to the limits of right and duty, and while in all cases reference must be had to the organic law of the nation for such limits, yet the latter is but the body and the letter of which the former is the thought and the spirit, and it is always safe to read the letter of the Constitution in the spirit of the Declaration of Independence. No duty rests more imperatively upon the courts than the enforcement of those constitutional provisions intended to secure that equality of rights which is the foundation of free government.
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