Huh?
"We, therefore the Representatives of the United States of America, . . . appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World . . ."
"With a firm Reliance on the Protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."
Or more importantly, “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
The concept that rights are from God alone, and therefore inalianable....NOT a gift of government, is the basis of a free republic. The rejection of that concept, by the legal and political elites in America, is why liberty is now slipping away.