You certainly have presented selections from the Declaration that brilliantly illustrate these points.

The reference to the creator deflects the royal arrogation of divine right from them to the people, the next argues that governments aren’t instituted to rule men, but established by the latter to secure their rights, and the last, of course, telescopes previous points into the justification for our Revolution.

I certainly agree that greater awareness of these concepts – specifically, as expressed in this founding document – would help us maintain our perspective and control over our fate.

Thanks for this excellent emphasis of your concern that Americans be more meaningful cognizant of the concepts that truly make us, uniquely among the primarily ethnically-defined nations of the earth, who we are.

One prudent way to look at this question is through the lens of the document that established our national identity, The Declaration of Independence.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these rights are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness…”

Clearly, our founders thought it necessary to explain that the source of all our rights is God — not kings and not parliament.

The founders went on to explain why this is important. The first reason was to declare the just mandate for any government…

“That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

…as well as the just remedy for abuse.

“That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it…”

If as a people we consistently looked to our founding principles and sufficiently believed them well enough to defend them, we would be less prone to resort to force and coercion to achieve factional ends to benefit one group at the expense of another.