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Mike Johnson: “Our rights do not derive from the state or a king. They come…”

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

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Speaker Johnson Delivers Remarks at Kennedy Center Vigil for Charlie Kirk

Published | Video Starts at 03:21

Because what the founders said, what they articulated, that God created us. He's the one that gave us our inalienable rights. Charlie Kirk stood for the principle and he shared it everywhere he could. Our rights do not derive from the state or a king. They come from the king of kings. Charlie also taught so effectively. He did it as well as anybody in his generation, or possibly for many generations, that the other principles that come from that, what the founders do. (03:21–03:27)

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Asserts that rights are derived from God, not the state or monarchy.

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