09-21-2007, 12:32 PM
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Junkie
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Originally Posted by Master_Shake
Exactly, the Puritans didn't "found" the country, it was "founded" by Jefferson, Adams, Hancock, Franklin and others who went to great pains to justify the government on the strength of the people's inherent rights, not on those rights given by Jesus, Moses or whoever.
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Apparently, you haven't read the Declaration of Independence:
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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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