Tag: Declaration of Independence

Why Rights are Inalienable

9 Jan 2010 by Lisa in Articles, Law, Philosophy, Politics

The concepts of rights is confusing to a lot of people. You can’t see them, you can’t feel them, and they are very often violated. As far as most people are concerned they simply don’t exist. Or, if they do, they are only something that the government “grants” and as such they can be “taken [...]

The idea of ‘Consent’

13 Apr 2009 by Lisa in Articles, Philosophy, Politics

This is a just pet-peeve of mine. I sometimes hear arguments regarding the ‘consent’ clause of the Declaration of Independence that seem to imply that one must consent to a just government and from that follows the idea that anything goes as long as one consents. I have to weigh in on this. In a [...]