Cooke at NRO:
"The beauty of the American Founding was not that it provided a detailed roadmap that could predict the minutiae of the future in glorious perpetuity, but that it laid out for all people a set of timeless and universal ideals, the veracity and applicability of which are contingent upon neither the transient mood of the mob nor the present state of technology. Among those ideals are that "all men are created equal," and that they "are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights"; that "Governments are instituted among Men" in order to "secure" their "rights"; that legitimate power derives "from the consent of the governed"; and that if any such government is seized or corrupted by tyrants, "it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it."
"The beauty of the American Founding was not that it provided a detailed roadmap that could predict the minutiae of the future in glorious perpetuity, but that it laid out for all people a set of timeless and universal ideals, the veracity and applicability of which are contingent upon neither the transient mood of the mob nor the present state of technology. Among those ideals are that "all men are created equal," and that they "are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights"; that "Governments are instituted among Men" in order to "secure" their "rights"; that legitimate power derives "from the consent of the governed"; and that if any such government is seized or corrupted by tyrants, "it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it."
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