Rights and Government-Basic Principles

 Truth. 

A RIGHT in one person creates a DUTY in another person. If YOU have a RIGHT, then I have duty to not interfere with your right.
When people have rights, the government has a duty to protect those rights.

"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," (Declaration of Independence)

There it is. The first founding principle-that God ENDOWS (an endowment is a gift in perpetuity) His creation (mankind, in His spiritual likeness) with RIGHTS above all other creatures. The second founding principles is that the PRIMARY PURPOSE of civil government is to PROTECT those rights against whomever, or whatever, might pose a threat thereto, INCLUDING government itself.
THAT is why the SECOND Amendment is the Second one listed. It's important.

In Exodus 20:3 Moses was directed to inform the people that we are to have NO OTHER GODS ahead of, or instead of the one God, who led the Israelites out of Egypt. If God gives a gift, then ANYONE who tries to TAKE that gift is asserting himself ABOVE God. Man cannot TAKE what God has given without usurping God's authority. Man is given authority to protect himself against any other man, or spirit, that would attempt to subjugate him because man, through his own free will, is intended to SEEK (relationship with) God. This is the basis of the RIGHT of self-defense. God gives us freedom. Ergo, any man who TAKE out freedom, is asserting his authority over God and that man is liable for his own demise.

The founders understood this and the Declaration asserts this truth as the basis for the War of Independence. Politically, we were dissolving the bonds with England because the king was usurping the authority of God by denying basic rights. Tactically, and practically, the people needed arms to protect that freedom from a power-hungry tyrant.

The principles are still valid. Nothing has changed.

Any person who does not understand this fundamental truth, is ignorant of the history, philosophy, and theology that undergirds the foundation of the republic. No person with that level of ignorance is qualified to hold a position of public office. People already IN office, who do not honor their oath of office (which includes commitment to these principles) should be removed immediately.
JAS