Remaking America by George Shollenberger, Idea XXVII (The rights that a self-government must secure.)

Americans are not thinking properly when they fight for civil rights and States rights. A civil culture has no rights. Nor do the States in the USA have rights. Only humans have rights. Rights are given to humans by God because he only gives humans the ability to distinguish ‘what is right’ from ‘what is wrong.’ Thus, when a nation uses a self-government, all rights of that nation’s people must be secured by this self-government.

The founding documents of the USA identify some rights that every U.S. citizen has received from God in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Unfortunately, U.S. lawyers say that the Declaration of Independence is not a law. But they are wrong because the Declaration of Independence has many other rights beyond the right to go to war with England. Some of these other rights are equal rights and unalienable rights. Equal and unalienable rights are the essentials that God gave to Man. Beyond these essentials, God also gave Man non essentials (or contingencies) so we can make free choices. In the Constitution, more rights are identified. They are in the Bill of Rights that were added on December 15, 1791.

The founders also generalized our rights in the Declaration of Independence. They did this with the phrase ‘Laws of Nature and Nature’s God.’ This phrase has two laws, which give us the right to search for truths and falsities through science and the right to search for rights and wrongs through a theology. To develop this great phrase, I began to unify theology and science on this website. I call this unification ‘theological science.’

If one asks our national government for information on its efforts to secure the people of the USA, an answer will not be received because our national-government does not operate as our founders hoped. Obviously, this is why the U.S. civil rights movement emerged. Thus, if the people of the USA want to rebuild America, our national government must become a true self-government. Certainly, the national government should not be limited, as republicans recommend during every election.