'Freedoms available nowhere else': Celebrating America's radical revolution * WorldNetDaily * by J. Peder Zane, Real Clear Wire

'Freedoms available nowhere else': Celebrating America's radical revolution * WorldNetDaily * by J. Peder Zane, Real Clear Wire: 

As American schoolchildren were once taught, the Declaration – and later, the Constitution – upended all of that. Rather than focus on the authority of government, our founding documents established the rights of the people. The idea that each of us is endowed by a creator with "unalienable" rights was a political rather than a religious statement: It set sharp lines – later codified in the Bill of Rights – that our government could not cross. Human rights, dignity, and freedom were not granted by rulers, who could take them away; they were birthrights.