Once upon a time in America, there was a tyrant. And Congress rejected him totally.
The tyrant, of course, was King George III, the target of the Declaration of Independence. We take it for granted now, but the Declaration was an enormous political innovation – in it, the country that became the United States of America laid claim to certain “unalienable” rights, rights that took precedence over any king or crown.
To protect those rights, our Founders declared that the People were allowed to “alter” or “abolish” the government – in this case, British rule over the American colonies.
The idea that ‘the People’ have ‘unalienable rights’ b …
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