Jovania Andrade Social Ethics William Behun “The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America draws on the theory of Natural Law in its opening passage: 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." “What does it mean for rights to be unalienable? What does it mean for rights to be natural? Is this different from claiming that these rights have a source in a divine creator?” The day The Declaration of Independence was written, was the day that the Unites States became an independent country. The United State was no longer under British rule and the 13 colonies united as a country. The Declaration of Independence “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 (www.history.org)”. Our rights are inalienable which means that can’t be taken away from us or be questioned. These are rights that were blessed with. According to Jefferson, …show more content…
According to http://www.breitbart.com ,“The “unalienable rights” explicitly protected by the Bill of Rights include, but are not limited to, the rights of free speech and religion, the right to keep and bear arms, self-determination with regard to one’s own property, the right to be secure in one’s own property, the right to a trial by a jury of one’s peers, protection from cruel and unusual punishment, and so forth”. The government may not have given us these rights but they