True Authority over Nations The American founders held certain truths to be self-evident. These truths explain unalienable rights from the Creator. Governments are...

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...

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...

True Consent of the Governed The American founders recognized that with great authority comes great responsibility. Yet people are fallible with weaknesses and they...

True Source of Political Authority “To secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” This...

True Institution of Governments It is very significant that our founders stated in the Declaration of Independence that “governments are instituted among men” for the...

The Security of Unalienable Rights The Declaration of Independence makes a profound statement about the role of civil government. Our founders came to view a civil...

True Right to Pursue Happiness The third unalienable right mentioned in the Declaration of Independence is the “pursuit of happiness.” If “liberty” was meant to be...

Right to Liberty Today, “liberty” is used to describe different things to different people. Some say that liberty is personal autonomy without limitations. Others view...

True Right to Life It is not surprising that America’s founders listed physical “life” as the first unalienable right. Without life you can have no other unalienable...