Where our rights come from

Saturday night, Life Liberty & Levin host Mark Levin interviewed GWU Law Professor Jonathan Turley to talk about the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. It's a timely intervview after Prof. Turley wrote this article about the Democrats' plan for packing the Supreme Court for his blog. Turley wrote "Democrats are renewing their calls to pack the Supreme Court with an instant liberal majority once they retake power. Rep. Seth Moulton (D., Mass.), who is facing a complaint over an alleged assault of a reporter, demanded the packing of the Court due to its decision to allow President Donald Trump to rescind Temporary Protected Status (TPS). Other members have joined the effort, citing the reversal of immigration decisions as the reason for eviscerating one of the most important institutions in our country."

The first question that I'd pose to Democrats is who'd protect the American people's God-given right with such an ideologically-driven court? Why should I think that a court whose primary consideration is progressive idealogical purity will respect the First Amendment, the Second Amendment or rulings like DC v. Heller, which affirmed the individual right to protect your family or West Virginia v. the EPA, which ruled that major changes to things like the Clean Air Act required legislation, that the major changes couldn't be done through regulation?

The opening of the Declaration of Independence emphatically states:

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

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.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;

It's essential for you to watch this interview from start-to-finish:

Prof. Turley speaks of the taking "off of the guardrails" during the French Revolution, which Prof. Turley depicts as a bloodletting. Meanwhile, the American Revolution produced the most stable government in the Enlightenment Era. There's a reason for the different outcomes.

The French Revolution happened to settle old scores. The American Revolution was built with protective guardrails:

  • all men are created equal
  • our rights come from "Nature's God"
  • the dissolution of our political ties with the British didn't happen for "light and transient causes."
Nature's God, not seemingly omnipotent rulers, guards our rights. Mob rule, aka democracy, is just another system that's built without a Judeo-Christian foundation.

Prof. Turley correctly states that each generation must fight the fight for liberty if we want to keep this great experiment in self-determination alive for the next generation.

Ladiies and gentlemen, boys and girls, it's worth fighting for another generation of revolutionary liberty. I know because I've lived that blessed life. Each time that a dark cloud visited my life, Nature's God provvided me with another silver lining. Next Saturday will mark my 70th birthday. I can say with total certainty that Nature's God is that faithful. Isn't it time this generation trusted in that steadfastness?

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