Liberty and Justice for ALL

"Announce Liberty throughout the Land."

These United States of America have undergone radical changes that have undercut the foundations of freedom laid by the Founders of this great land.  In reading The Essential Wisdom of the Founding Fathers, edited by Carol Kelly-Gangi, it is patently apparent that our Founders' intention was not to create a republic void of moral absolutes, but rather to establish one guided by Constitutional principles rooted in the natural laws of a propitious Creator.  John Dickinson, in A Warning to the Colonies, opined:

"Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness . . . we claim them from a higher source - from the King of Kings, and the Lord of all the Earth.  They are not annexed to us by parchments and seals.  They are created in us by the decrees of Providence which establish the laws of our nature.  They are born with us; exist with us; and cannot be taken from us by any human power without taking our lives."

Prior to the publication of the Declaration of Independence, Alexander Hamilton, in "The Farmer Refuted," likewise asserted the centrality of natural rights in the affairs of mankind:

"The fundamental source of all your errors, sophisms, and false reasoning, is a total ignorance of the natural rights of mankind.  Were you once to become acquainted with these, you could never entertain a thought, that all men are not, by nature, entitled to a parity of privileges.  You would be convinced, that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator, to the whole human race; and that civil liberty is founded in that; and cannot be wrested from any people, without the most maifest violation of justice.

How sad that rights granted by the Almighty would be rent from those to whom they were so graciously committed.  Sadder yet is the reality that such rights have been surrendered over time without a fight.  Dickinson understood that our God-given rights are worthy of vigilant protection.  To relinquish such rights without a fight, is to espouse an ideology of atheism.  To think that the blessing of   liberty is endowed by a government, king or political system is idolatry.  Benjamin Franklin wrote, "Freedom is not a gift bestowed on us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature."

Resist the pressure to acquiesce to philosophies that negate the certainty of "the Laws of Nature and Nature's God."  Stand firm in the knowledge that our Founders understood how a nation like the United States could retain God's blessings, and our government held to the standard of "liberty and justice for all."