OPINION: The American Experiment: 250 Years and Counting
Funk
Two hundred fifty years ago, fifty-six men put their names to a document that would forever change the course of history. They pledged “their Lives, their Fortunes and their sacred Honor” to a radical idea: that government exists to protect rights it did not create.
The Declaration of Independence was unlike anything the world had seen. Monarchs claimed power by birthright. Governments determined the rights of their citizens. But America’s founders declared the opposite; that every person is “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,” and that those rights exist independent of kings, presidents, legislatures or courts. (Read that part again.)
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