True Authority over Nations

True Authority over Nations

True Authority over Nations The American founders held certain truths to be self-evident. These truths explain unalienable rights from the Creator. Governments are instituted among men by the consent of the governed to protect these rights. All human governments are...
True Causes to Alter or Abolish Governments

True Causes to Alter or Abolish Governments

True Causes to Alter or Abolish Governments The colonial representatives who met in 1776 took very seriously the deliberations on their future relationship with Great Britain. To declare the colonies as “free and independent states,” required valid legal...
True Safety and Happiness

True Safety and Happiness

True Safety and Happiness One of the enumerated unalienable rights is the “pursuit of happiness.” Within the Declaration this truth is reiterated in the context of the right of the people to alter or abolish an existing form of government. If a form of government...
True Consent of the Governed

True Consent of the Governed

True Consent of the Governed The American founders recognized that with great authority comes great responsibility. Yet people are fallible with weaknesses and they lack perfect wisdom. In addition, people have passions and motives that are not always pure and...