Thomas Jefferson’s words in the Declaration of Independence should be given great attention in the United States today. As a lawyer, I consider the Declaration of Independence to be analogous to a new companies “Articles of Incorporation” or “Articles of Association” for an LLC.

Those are the documents that create a new company to be guided by the purposes described in such a document. The U.S. Constitution is analogous to the By-laws or Operating Agreement of the new company. They describe how is will be managed.

Look at these documents as creating a new nation—the Declaration of Independence—and then describing in detail how the new nation should be managed—the U.S. Constitution. Those documents cannot be ignored.

Jefferson wrote: “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 are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

C.S Lewis added: “God never meant man to be a purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it.” (“Mere Christianity, 1952, page 64).

God invented it. He gave us truths that are self evident, like life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Man didn’t invent any of those.

Peanuts comic strip said it this way: Lucy and Linus are staring out of their window at home looking into a rain storm. Lucy says: “Boy, look at it rain . . . What if it floods the whole world?”

Linus responds, while still looking out the window: “It will never do that . . .in the ninth chapter of Genesis God promised Noah that would never happen again, and the sign of the promise is the rainbow.”

Lucy smiles while looking at the rain and says: “You’ve taken a great load off my mind . . .”

Linus replies seriously: “Sound theology has a way of doing that!”