(Send to your peeps; Americans have forgotten what the concept of America is really about).

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/07/04/what-the-declaration-of-independence-really-claimed/

The political theory announced in the Declaration of Independence can be summed up by the proposition [the author] mentioned above: First come rights, and then comes government. According to this view:

• The rights of individuals do not originate with any government, but pre-exist its formation.
• The protection of these rights is both the purpose and first duty of government.
• Even after government is formed, these rights provide a standard by which its performance is measured and, in extreme cases, its systemic failure to protect rights—or its systematic violation of rights—can justify its alteration or abolition.
• At least some of these rights are so fundamental that they are “inalienable,” meaning they are so intimately connected to one’s nature as a human being that they cannot be transferred to another even if one consents to do so.

Happy Fourth of July!

Love this article.

We'd be better off as a nation if more people understood that the government does not grant rights; it exists primarily to protect them.

I think a lot of gun-grabbers, deep down, get that... but they're not intellectually honest enough to let it get in the way of their emotion- or power-driven agenda.

Love this article.

We'd be better off as a nation if more people understood that the government does not grant rights; it exists primarily to protect them.

I think a lot of gun-grabbers, deep down, get that... but they're not intellectually honest enough to let it get in the way of their emotion- or power-driven agenda.

Let's help educate our fellows. It ain't gonna happen without us doing that. Same with gun rights (it is totally related to gun rights anyway).

Here's to Treason.   

Happy Independence Day 2aHawaii !

Keep Calm and Carry On.