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[[File:W-pray.jpg|Right|200px|thumb|Recognition of the source of rights]]

[[File:W-pray.jpg|Right|200px|thumb|Recognition of the source of rights]]

'''Unalienable rights''' are those which [[God]] gave to man at [[Creation]], once and for all. By definition, since God granted such rights, governments cannot properly take them away. ''Query: is the right to decline [[vaccine|vaccination]] an unalienable right?''

'''Unalienable rights''', more elegantly stated as "inalienable rights" as [[Thomas Jefferson]]'s version did,<ref>The awkward term "unalienable" was an unfortunate substitution made by [[John Adams]] of [[Thomas Jefferson]]'s more elegant "inalienable".</ref></blockquote> are those which [[God]] gave to man at [[Creation]], once and for all. By definition, since God granted such rights, governments cannot properly take them away. ''Query: is the right to decline [[vaccine|vaccination]] an unalienable right?''

In [[America]], this fundamental truth is recognized and enshrined in our nation's birth certificate, the ''[[Declaration of Independence]]'':

In [[America]], this fundamental truth is recognized and enshrined in our nation's birth certificate, the ''[[Declaration of Independence]]'':

<blockquote>"[A]ll men are created equal...[and] are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, [[Liberty]] and the pursuit of Happiness."<ref>The awkward term "unalienable" was an unfortunate substitution made by [[John Adams]] of [[Thomas Jefferson]]'s more elegant "inalienable".</ref></blockquote>

<blockquote>"[A]ll men are created equal...[and] are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, [[Liberty]] and the pursuit of Happiness."

It is important to understand that the very premise of our nation is the fact that these [[rights]], based on [[Natural Law]], are "[[God-given]]." If they are not given to us by an Authority higher than human [[government]], then any government action to abolish those rights would be against God's will. Rights that are subject to government restriction or [[license]] are called a [[privilege]] rather than a right. The [[Founding Fathers]] understood this principle and created a [[Republicanism|revolution]] in political theory by enacting, for the first time in [[history]], a government specifically established to protect the rights that had been given to man by God.

It is important to understand that the very premise of our nation is the fact that these [[rights]], based on [[Natural Law]], are "[[God-given]]." If they are not given to us by an Authority higher than human [[government]], then any government action to abolish those rights would be against God's will. Rights that are subject to government restriction or [[license]] are called a [[privilege]] rather than a right. The [[Founding Fathers]] understood this principle and created a [[Republicanism|revolution]] in political theory by enacting, for the first time in [[history]], a government specifically established to protect the rights that had been given to man by God.