I wish there were a philosophy tag or something. This is an ideas level comment, not an events or people one.

I think what you are getting at is the appeal to authority that is made when the basis of the inalienable nature of your individually vested liberties is God your creator.

Your rights being divinely granted and inalienably inherent as a nature of that creation is the rationale for governments inability to arbitrarily suspend or revoke them.

The government does NOT grant you your individual liberties, they merely recognize those inherent rights in the Constitution. They can’t suspend what they don’t grant - as a concept.

That concept is also an important vanguard for individual liberty versus collectivist philosophies that abet tyranny of the majority. If you as a single person don’t have your own rights endowed by your creator then you start having rights experienced via group quantification and justified by your membership status. Again, inalienable individual rights recognizing the individual person as the unit at which these inherent qualities are quantified and protected and divinely inate.

I think that’s what you were getting at... but I could be reading it wrong.

I wish there were a philosophy tag or something. This is an ideas level comment, not an events or people one.

I think what you are getting at is the appeal to authority that is made when the basis of the inalienable nature of your individually vested liberties is God your creator.

Your rights being divinely granted and inalienably inherent as a nature of that creation is the rationale for governments inability to arbitrarily suspend or revoke them.

The government does NOT grant you your individual liberties, they merely recognize those inherent rights in the Constitution. They can’t suspend what they don’t grant - as a concept.

That concept is also an important vanguard for individual liberty versus collectivist philosophies that abet tyranny of the majority. If you as a single person don’t have your own rights endowed by your creator then you start having rights experienced via group quantification and justified by your membership status. Again, inalienable individual rights recognizing the individual person as the unit at which these inherent qualities are inherent and protected and divinely inate.

I think that’s what you were getting at... but I could be reading it wrong.