Where do our rights come from? What does it mean to be an American?
— Larry P. Arnn (@DrLarryArnn) March 20, 2026
In the latest Story of America, @BishopBarron considers the principles that animate our nation—the duties of citizens, and the meaning of the “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.”
The Bishop is a brilliant man,… pic.twitter.com/OAf1atHQ2Y
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As I keep defending, thank you for this post/forum.
"The very purpose of the Constitution—the purpose that directed all branches of the government, not merely the courts—was the securing of those "natural rights."
The Founders REJECTED the precepts of Thomas Hobbs, that "Laws define Rights."
This was REJECTED, as ———RIGHTS pre-exist.———
But that is to say, again, that the founding, and the second Constitution it brought forth, found its telos, its central purpose, in the securing of natural rights, the rights that had to be there even before a government came into place. That understanding of the regime could not be explained without the recognition then of moral truths, of standards of moral judgment that had to be there before we could even conceive a Constitution.
https://www.jameswilsoninstitute.org/a-natural-law-manifesto
The Law of Nature and Nature's God, or LONANG.