The right to life

[Nuclear Unicorn]

26. You understand, that since the OP is about the Declaration of Independence

your appeals to the legal system are rather moot. The DOI states that the "legal system" had become so injurious to the well-being of the people that the people were within their rights to abolish that system.

There was no legal system by which they assumed the right to rebel (and no legal system grants such a right). The Constitution and the Bill of Rights were still more than a decade away.

The legal system is not a pre-self existing thing in and of its own being, it is a construct put forth by the people to protect their rights, both as individuals and in common. The people can give it nothing that they do not first possess within their natural selves.

When that system, through the designs of the ambitious or the negligence of the apathetic, becomes more of a threat than a protector the people have, by that same power by which they first constructed the government, the right to amend or abolish it. The people are not beholden to a political entity simply because it is a political entity. People are real, political entities are merely abstractions.

If we have police it is because we acknowledge the right to be unmolested in our homes and businesses and undisturbed in public. We give them the power to act on our behalf but it is still a power that we first possess as individuals. If the police are not present or are unwilling to assist or -- worse still -- the perpetrators of the threat the right of self-defense still exists.

To deny someone the power to do so and prosecute them if they retain the means should disturb us.