(SRN NEWS)-With the 250th birthday of the United States looming, the nation’s founding document is getting a closer look. In its opening paragraph, Thomas Jefferson proposed that “the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” grant humans equal status and entitle Americans to dissolve the political bands with Britain. As historians have shown, Benjamin Franklin added a phrase to suggest that those rights […]
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There’s a lot of God in the Declaration of Independence
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(SRN NEWS)-With the 250th birthday of the United States looming, the nation’s founding document is getting a closer look. In its opening paragraph, Thomas Jefferson proposed that “the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” grant humans equal status and entitle Americans to dissolve the political bands with Britain. As historians have shown, Benjamin Franklin added a phrase to suggest that those rights had been “endowed by their Creator.”