John Adams: The Declaration of Independence

[WillScarlet16]

Rick Santorum should watch this before he calls college grads 'snobs.'

This country was founded by the best educated minds of their generation, and any American should be proud of that.

[beatleboy9020001]

i love how non chalant jefferson is, "meh well its what i believe"

[zombieassassin26]

hey mr bubness r u wacthing the video now

[Spartain117A]

Ouch! Stop! Please Stop Writing! I Would Have Cried....

[annata12]

Human rights originate in Nature, thus rights cannot be granted via political charter, because that implies that rights are legally revocable, hence, would be privileges:

It is a perversion of terms to say that a charter gives rights. It operates by a contrary effect,that of taking rights away. Rights are inherently in all the inhabitants; but charters, by annulling those rights, in the majority, leave the right, by exclusion, in the hands of a few They consequently are instruments of injustice.

[livinglegend01]

@annata12 Brilliantly said, sir. :)

[AniPieface]

@annata12 But this document was not intended to grant rights, it served the purpose of making the King aware of the rights he was violating and thereby annulling (using your word, sorry) his authority.

[brandn1687]

@AniPieface thats what @annata12 said.

[kcufmalsi]

@annata12 I also read Thomas Paine. You quote him perfectly......... I believe your comments come from his book, Rights of Man. Every American should read Thomas Paine. He's also wrote, Common Sense.

[script5]

:)