All men favor liberty over bondage.  As the great abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison wrote, “The right to enjoy liberty is inalienable…. Every man has a right to his own body – to the products of his own labor”.   Men are born to be free and have the natural right to protect one's first property – his own body.  How much liberty one prefers depends on one’s confidence and self-esteem as developed over time from the success and failures of one’s actions, stemming from one's rational decisions.   Clearly, some want and seek more freedom than others, but all want some form of freedom. We witness, however, that the tendency of the human race toward liberty is largely thwarted by dictators, despots, totalitarian regimes, and even by the more democratic governments created and sustained by its citizenry.  This is due to a fatal flaw; delegating to the state, or setting some other above the individual’s freedom in order to arrange, organize and regulate according to a ruler or a collective will.  This assumes someone else knows how best to improve your life, and those so delegated need you to believe that.   

Our American Declaration of Independence, which is properly called the “conscience of our Constitution”, holds that all people are naturally born free, and may use their freedom to create a political and legal order that respects and protects this right of independence for all its citizens.   Our founders were smart and experienced enough to devise a system of government that protected individual freedom from the collective.  That was its main function. They believed too much government usually causes more problems than it solves when it seeks to limit freedoms for fear of what individuals will do.   Mistakenly, many people are more concerned about equality and equity, and value it over individual freedom.  Some even argue that we should have no right to liberty.  There is a backward assumption made by these egalitarians that claim that our liberty is a privilege that arises from a constitutional order.  In other words, is created by our democracy.  No!  Liberty comes from a natural law that should be assumed and affirmed first, and then a democratic order arises from it.  In other words, we establish a government and create laws to protect our natural freedoms.