Sentence examples for unalienable from inspiring English sources

The hard part about arguing that abortion is necessary for women's equality, of course, is that there are still too many people who don't see women's pursuit of happiness as an unalienable right.

In August, though, voters here approved through referendum a conservative-backed proposal to enshrine the state right to bear arms as "unalienable".

Why, he argues, should some 12m, roughly 4-5%, of their fellow citizens (according to most estimates) be deprived of what the American Declaration of Independence describes as an "unalienable right...endowed by the Creator"?

The virtue of Mr Gingrich's version of this common conservative argument is that he makes it more or less explicitly, which makes it easier to explain what is wrong with it.Mr Gingrich recurs constantly to the Declaration of Independence's premise that men "are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights".

If life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are "among" the unalienable rights, what are the other ones?We're never going to get permanent answers to these kinds of questions.

Also "self-evident" is that "the People" have a right "to alter or to abolish" a government when it starts to infringe on, rather than secure, their unalienable rights.All of this makes it quite clear that Jefferson saw government as having an indispensable role in ensuring that society affords people (or men, anyway) the wherewithal to pursue their fundamental rights.

But the Declaration of Independence does not say that government should pursue the happiness of its citizens, only that it should secure its citizens' unalienable right to pursue it for themselves.If people do not know what will make them happy (just as if they do not realise that smoking kills or calories fatten) governments could helpfully tell them what might.

Time and again, Mr Obama seemed to be re-fighting that election.At the very start of his inaugural address, he offered a definition of what it means to be American: an allegiance to the idea of equal creation and unalienable rights articulated in the opening lines of Jefferson's Declaration of Independence.

That is the significance of the assertion, in the American Declaration of Independence, that "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights".

Sometimes he uses it as a shibboleth of Americanism.The reason American exceptionalism exists is one phrase it's not because we're bigger, not because we're stronger it's one phrase: "we are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights".

Who decides when a government has become destructive of the unalienable rights of men?