Natural Rights: Liberty Doesn’t Need a Government Permission Slip
Even though many people credit Thomas Jefferson for the natural rights principles in the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson himself pointed out that he didn’t invent those ideas. Instead, he wrote, he had adopted the “harmonizing sentiments of the...
Rights are not gifts from government: 13 Essential Quotes on Liberty
Thomas Paine called them “imprescriptible rights.” Richard Henry Lee said they came from the “law of nature.” Jefferson reminds us that free people “claim their rights.” But the founders and old revolutionaries didn’t create...
The 9th Amendment: Partner to the 10th
Few parts of the Constitution have been so misunderstood as the Ninth Amendment in the Bill of Rights. With its 21 words the 9th Amendment reads; “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by...