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Marco Rubio: “Our rights come from God, our Creator, not from our laws…”

Featuring: Marco Rubio, Republican | Secretary of State, United States | National

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Live Marco Rubio addresses State Department as Donald Trump's Secretary of State

Published | Video Starts at 28:04

We are, at the end of the day, a nation founded on a powerful principle. And that powerful principle is that all men are created equal because Our rights come from God, our Creator, not from our laws, not from our governments. And we hope the entire world can one day live under that. And we will always, always be strong defenders of that principle. (28:04–28:09)

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Asserts that rights are derived from a divine source rather than legal or governmental systems.

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