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Originally posted by Mojo_PeiPei
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.
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Last I checked, the Declaration of Independence, while an important document, is not the law in this country. So if you presenting it as support for God in the law, you're barking up an empty tree. Further, I think you will find that the framers of the Constitution, who were largely the same people who wrote the Declaration, kept God out of the Constitution. The difference is this:
The Declaration of Independence was targeted at the leaders of Europe - kings by divine right. We were claiming a divine right to human rights because that was what they would understand.
The Constitution was targeted at the (educated, white, landholding, male) people of America then and in the future, in the attempt to provide sufficient flexibilty to adapt to changing times, while keeping certain things off limits for all time. Among them was the establishment of a state religion.
Of course, you could merely be advocating revolution, in which case, I will just leave it alone.