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Ted Cruz: “The principle that God has given us natural rights is now…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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… National Committee, but by God with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I have to say it is stunning. To me that The principle that God has given us natural rights is now deemed by Democrats some radical and dangerous notion. Mr. Jefferson was right when he wrote those words. Government exists to protect those rights. But slavery was not okay when US Law allowed it. It was wrong then, it is wrong now. (04:45–04:54)

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Asserts that Democrats consider the principle of God-given natural rights as radical and dangerous.

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