The Declaration of Independence says God gave us “unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” That governments are instituted to secure those rights, and if government is “destructive of these ends” it is “the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.”
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"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..." not "God"
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from your own link...
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Replying to @drcaban
Read the paragraph above: “Nature’s God.”

Apr 17, 2020 · 5:00 AM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson
not what you quoted
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furthermore "...Thomas Jefferson and his fellow drafters of that document--including Benjamin Franklin and John Adams--invoke the "laws of nature and of nature's god." (The absence of capitalization was the way Jefferson wrote it..." ~ @TIME