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Sorry And here's your smoke too sure brought to you

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by laws of nature because someone needs to keep those

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cheetahs in check I will check out this excerpt from

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the declaration of independence when in the course of human

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events we hold these truths to be self evident Now

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cool it maybe All right this excerpt is describing what

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kind of rights Well so we've got to drop down

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here with the options civil divine human and natural We'll

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take a closer look at this excerpt and see if

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we can figure out what the heck is trying to

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say Well a few phrases jump out at us powers

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of earth laws of nature and of nature's god all

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men are created equal Well somehow i can't picture a

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piece of legislation coming out of today's congress with that

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kind of wording But what does it all mean All

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right well are they describing civil rights wealth Martin luther

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king had been one of the founding fathers they might

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have been but no the people they're referring to here

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really property owning white protestant men Sort of a narrow

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definitions think well but they certainly weren't concerned with rights

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for all people at this point so it can't be

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civil rights divine rights there's mention of god and the

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creator But divine rights were actually rights given to kings

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back in the middle ages because they supposedly got their

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power straight from the big guy Well not what's being

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described here so that one's out human rights again Women

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children minorities volleyball players all humans Last we checked and

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they were far from being on equal footing with white

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protestant men Right Mouths are Answer has to be natural

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rights right which has a major philosophy during the enlightenment

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And it said that men have their rights just because

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they're man Oh man it was like it couldn't hurt 00:01:57.807 --> [endTime] to have a few founding mothers don't you think

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