unalienable rights

Our revolution was based on a democracy where conceptually all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, including life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

“The whole idea that we are equal in the sight of God, our maker, that we have unalienable rights, all that, that is all fundamentally a Christian worldview.”

Through their stories, their voices, and a handful of images, we can recognize that they and all the millions they stand for were also “endowed by their Creator with the unalienable rights to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Max has long exhibited uncommon courage in standing up for the unalienable rights we Americans purport to uphold.

By “long-held doctrine” I mean a blueprint for democratic government that goes back to two seventeenth- and eighteenth-century political philosophers: Charles Montesquieu, who first wrote about the separation of powers, and John Locke, whose ideas about unalienable rights were enshrined in the Declaration of Independence.