They could have said, yeah, future generations, liberty's eroded, you know, it's not my problem. They could have said that. But that's not what they said. So They made the decision to pledge their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to establish a new nation conceived in liberty, a nation that pledged itself to the idea that our rights come from God, not from the government. that government is a matter of law, not of individual. The whim of individual rulers. And that constitutionally, government needed to be limited and we shouldn't have concentrations of power. (15:58–16:12)
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Asserts that the founding fathers believed rights come from God, not government.
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