The ROLE OF GOVERNMENT
In Protecting
GOD-GIVEN RIGHTS

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It takes an arrogant and tyrannic government to presume to grant rights to those whom it governs; for one with the authority to grant rights must necessarily have equal authority to retract that which it grants.

He who would accept the rights offered to him by any mortal agent of government must also accept that the same entity who offered him these rights is fully authorized to remove these rights.

Thus, any government who truly puts the interests of the governed first must acknowledge that the rights afforded to the governed must be wholly on par with the rights that they who compose the government would desire for themselves.

If a government acknowledges that GOD alone is the granter of rights, and that all a mortal government may presume to do is seek to protect these rights for those over whom they govern, then the most that government might do is retract that protection from an individual or group, rather than actually deprive them of the right itself.

Thus, should an individual or group ever find themselves in a situation where the government no longer protects their rights, they may continue to profess a claim to those rights in the eyes of GOD and make a claim against the government for failing to protect those rights.

Contrast this with a nation where the government grants rights, the governed accept these rights, and then the government suspends these rights and the governed have no recourse because the same entity that they acknowledged as having the authority to grant these rights has simply 'ended the contract', so to speak.