Common Good Righteousness

Our nationโ€™s founders claimed a โ€œself-evidentโ€ truth that all humans are equal and that our Creator has endowed us with โ€œcertain unalienable Rights.โ€ These โ€œRightsโ€ were so important to the writers of the Declaration that they capitalized the word. Pursuing a just distribution of those rights makes one a good American as well as a …