| </span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (LogicaLunatic,)
</span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (Impenitent,)
rights come from the creator, not from the majority (otherwise we'd still have slaves)<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
My creators are my mother and father. Your creators are your mother and father. My parents and your parents are people. Rights come from the people.
Like somebody else said, the Declaration of Independance is not a legal document. There IS a legal document that does make it VERY clear that the United States was not founded on the Christian Religion. See the Treaty with Tripoli.
LogicaLunatic<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
Although John Adams spelled it out in that treaty, he and others (particularly Madison) didn't do a bad job by excluding any call to a religious basis for the US when drafting the U.S. Constitution. |