The Plain Truth on Natural Rights

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Does the government work for us -- -- work for the government can government create powers on its own or is that limited only to those powers that we have given until it.

Where does the government even come -- tonight government sovereignty and the consent of the governed.

The doctrine of natural rights was most prominently laid out by Thomas Jefferson and the declaration of independence right at the beginning of the document.

We hold these truths to be self evidently wrote.

But all men are created equal and that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights but among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

This is probably the most famous phrase in the English language.

But the words that immediately follow may be the most important here's what it says to secure these rights governments are instituted among men.

Deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Okay.

What is the consent of the government.

Natural rights are -- to your humanity and the source of your sovereignty as a free individual.

If you believe in god as I do and Jefferson did.

-- you accept a truism that we have been created by him and his image and likeness and just as he is perfectly free -- way.

If you believe instead that we are the product of natural evolutionary forces and not the intentional recipients of gifts from a -- supreme being.

You also recognize that we own our minds and our bodies and we have the free -- to use them as we see fit.

Either way.

Whether you choose theology or biology is the source of our rights.

The birth of America in the declaration of independence recognize that our rights come from within us they are not given to us by the government.

You'll ever write to your person to your property.

And to your version of the pursuit of happiness.

You also have a right to think as you wish to say what you think -- to publish what you say.

You have -- right to use violence to protect yourself from anyone or any thing trying to take away your rights you have a right to privacy to fairness from the government.

The right to travel to worship or not to worship.

Europe -- right to keep and enjoy your earnings and your property.

Give a right to be left alone.

All humans have these rights.

But sometimes bad and power hungry people we'll try to take these rights away.

A thief in the night we use a gun -- a crowbar to steal your car.

I think for the government will use the law to steal your income you get the picture.

The declaration of independence talks about government receiving its just powers from the consent of the governed.

It is describing the process by which we transfer -- portion of our natural rights to the government.

The process by which we each give away some of our freedom some of our individual sovereignty and does give to the government its authority to -- What's important to note about this process is that according to the declaration of independence it is supposed to be voluntary and consensual.

That's why government can only will those powers which the individual is at liberty to wield and to give to the government.

Think with this -- you can't steal a car from your neighbor and so your friends can't hire an agent to go out and steal from your neighbor either.

And thus fueling your friends cannot empower the government to do this deal.

Again I think you got the point lawful government only has the powers that we once had and we lawfully gave to the government.

Just as slaves of the moral and legal right to leave those enslaving them.

Just as the states have the moral and legal right to leave a union that violates the constitution that binds them.

So -- you have the moral right to live without a government when it breaks its own laws.

The federal government claims your consent through the constitution.

A constitution as a social contract that binds the American people to their government.

Did you freely consent to this I don't know anybody did.

So since none of -- consented to the constitution either the government stays within the confines of the constitution.

Or we can ignore or change the govern.

This -- called the consent of the governed.

Was widely and openly accepted by the framers they gave us a constitution.

Which defines limits and constrains the government.

This is why adherence to the constitution by all government.

Is so crucial to preserving and retaining our freedoms.

The constitution formalizes the relationship between sovereign people and Sovereign States and the federal government.

When the constitution is ignored so as our sovereignty.

And if we can't avoid a government to which we never gave consent and which violates the constitution's.

So our freedoms be ignored.

That's what we defend freedom here every night of the week tomorrow on freedom watch my.

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