Thomas Jefferson was tasked with the treasonous task of authoring the Declaration of Independence, separating the Americans forever from King George III of England.

Without hesitation, Jefferson opened his portable desk and began work.

He wrote: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with…Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

These were rights that no man, or king, could take from them.

Wisdom and observation taught Jefferson that those rights came from God, they were inherited, they were innate in the human spirit.

And governments existed solely to protect those rights, nothing more.

That government received its legitimate authority from “the consent of the governed.” That idea struck directly at the ancient belief of the divine right of kings, that kings ruled because God had made them kings and that “commoners never had the right to challenge a king.”

Thomas Jefferson and our Founders shattered such false traditions. And the world would never be the same again.

I’m Rick Robison and this is the FORGOTTEN PATRIOTS Podcast.

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