Wow!
Thanks for the detailed explanation, Platapus.
Yup, I read it all. That's what I love subsim for: again I will go more educated into bed than I woke up (not smarter
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What I would like to add that maybe the second sentence of the declaration is the more important one in regarding people's natural rights, in my opinion the first sentence is one of the most beautiful ever written in the English language:
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.