Instead of learning such unconstitutional heresies, the reformer suggested, students should begin their study with the phrase, “Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed.”
Monday, November 21, 2022
Mobbed By Consent
Most states in today’s U.S. periodically undertake the task of revising academic standards for their public schools. Recently, in one such exercise, a member of the commission charged with reviewing the standards for social studies moved to omit the first sentence and a half of the Declaration of Independence—all that stuff about the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God, self-evident truths, and unalienable rights that governments are instituted to secure. Sounded like a violation of the separation of church and state to him.
