Abraham Lincoln

Today we wrote a little essay thing on how Abraham used the Declaration of Independence and it's "liberty to all" principle and compared it to the American Union. I think he has a good point because in the declaration, it says, "that they are endowed upon by their Creator, with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness", meaning that everyone has the right to liberty. It also says, "to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men", meaning that the soul purpose of the government is to protect our rights and that "if any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to establish new government." So the government was created in order to protect our rights to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. If the government fails to do so, it's our job to establish a new government that's fit to secure these ends. He compares this principle to an apple of gold, and that the constitution and the union were made to protect this principle, not the principle to protect us from the constitution and the union. Without the union, we would have minimal protection on our rights to liberty, because the free government we've established would be gone, and the country would be very similar to our mother country, Great Britain, which would be like going back to square one.