“When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation…”
Randy Barnett at Volokh has the Declaration Of Independence, Annotated, here, for the 4th. A commenter replies:
‘Unfortunately, insead of undertaking that challenging task, Barnett and other libertarians prefer to oppose the notion of sovereignty itself. Seeing popular sovereignty as an enemy of liberty, they seek to make liberty an antagonist of popular sovereignty. That really is getting it wrong in a big way.’
A lot hinges of that definition of liberty, and the individual.
