Rights Are Not Gifts from Government: The Founders’ View
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- Tenth Amendment Center
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- Fri 06 Dec 2024
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- https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/12/rights-are-not-gifts-from-government-the-founders-view/
Rights don’t come from a constitution, a bill of rights, or any document at all. Your natural rights – come from your creator – and you have them by the nature of your humanity. Even civil rights – are built on the foundation of natural rights. These were widely-held views from the founders and old revolutionaries.
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Declaration of Independence (4 July 1776)
Virginia Declaration of Rights (12 June 1776)
Thomas Paine – Rights of Man, Part II (1792)
John Dickinson – An address to the Committee of Correspondence in Barbados (1766)
Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Henry Lee (8 May 1825)
Alexander Hamilton – The Farmer Refuted, &c. (23 Feb 1775)
Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Mason Locke Weems (13 Dec 1804)
Episode – Thomas Jefferson’s Favorite Book on Government?
Francis Hutcheson – An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1726)
Thomas Paine – Rights of Man, Part I (1791)
Samuel Adams – The Rights of the Colonists (20 Nov 1772)
Episode – Everyone Armed to Preserve Liberty
James Otis, Jr – The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved (1764)
John Jay – Letter to J.C. Dongan (7 Feb 1792)
Luther Martin – Philadelphia Convention (27-28 June 1787)
Theophilus Parsons – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (5 Feb 1788)
Thomas Paine – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (1788)
James Madison – Speech Proposing Amendments to the Constitution (8 June 1789)
Thomas Paine – Dissertation on the First Principles of Government (1795)
Thomas Jefferson – A Summary View of the Rights of British America (July 1774)
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