The Very First Right Is . . .

Before there was a United States Constitution or even a United States of America our founding fathers met and worked on the foundation of this nation. They realized just like building a house that in the building of a nation the most important part would be laying out a solid, concrete foundation. It was time for Colonial America to turn the page on history and create a new government. The writing of what I believe to be the most important document in American History, The Declaration of Independence, was the first step in the turning of pages in the birth of this nation. The founders believed that the people were created by our Creator with certain unalienable rights. The word unalienable is an adjective used to describe something that is incapable of being repudiated. The right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were the unalienable rights that our founders laid out for the foundation of our country. William Jennings Bryan said, “the chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable rights of the individual, among which are the right to life, the right to liberty, the right to the pursuit of happiness and the right to worship God according to the dictates of one’s conscience.” Unfortunately, the government has repudiated the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness throughout the course of our nation.