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The founders claimed government was created to secure our rights, not to grant them legitimacy.


We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed...

Are you claiming the founders had it bass ackwards?


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