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Mike Johnson: “Our rights do not derive from government, they come from God…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Mike Johnson's Speech at SBA Pro Life America Event

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We eliminated the king, the middleman, we eliminated the sovereign on the earth. Because the founders were students of scripture and they understood that Our rights do not derive from government, they come from God himself. And there are serious implications from that. That's Right. See, there's a worldview, a foundation to this grand experiment in self governance. Psalm 11:3 says, if the foundations be destroyed, what would the righteous do? (05:00–05:05)

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Asserts that rights are God-given, not granted by the government.

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