Most every other nation was established
in a capricious fashion. Whether defined by an ethnicity, a linguistic
community, or the happenstance of being ruled by a royal dynastic
elite, other countries were not the result of their people appealing to
first principles, of building a political structure from scratch based
upon the lessons of prior centuries. Ours is different.
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Yet it should be obvious where our
existence as free men and women starts. Not with the right of
association, or a free press, or freedom of conscience, or the right to
keep and bear arms. Everything begins with the right to life.