{"id":94091,"date":"2023-07-04T21:01:42","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T02:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=94091"},"modified":"2023-07-04T21:01:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T02:01:42","slug":"94091","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=94091","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-desc\">\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/columns\/charlie-martin\/2019\/07\/04\/the-geometry-of-liberty-n120530\">The Geometry of Liberty: The Declaration of Independence Is a Logical Argument Based on Jefferson\u2019s Axioms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking about \u201cWe hold these truths to be self-evident\u201d and remembered I\u2019d written about it in 2019.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Declaration as a whole is a logical argument that begins by stating its axioms:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That all men (by which Jefferson meant humanity, humankind) are created equal;<\/li>\n<li>that by the very fact of their existence they have rights that inhere to them by their nature;<\/li>\n<li>that among these right \u2014 that is, there are other natural rights that Jefferson doesn\u2019t assert for the purposes of his argument \u2014 are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness;<\/li>\n<li>that governments exists by the consent of the governed to secure \u2014 protect \u2014 those rights;<\/li>\n<li>that a government\u2019s only reason or justification for existence is to secure those rights;<\/li>\n<li>and that a government\u2019s only legitimacy and authority derives from that consent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In that one sentence, Jefferson changes the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-footer container-fluid\">\n<div class=\"row post-meta\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The Geometry of Liberty: The Declaration of Independence Is a Logical Argument Based on Jefferson\u2019s Axioms. I was thinking about \u201cWe hold these truths to be self-evident\u201d and remembered I\u2019d written about it in 2019. The Declaration as a whole is a logical argument that begins by stating its axioms: That all men (by which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=94091\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94092,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94091\/revisions\/94092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}