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🗓️ 10 May 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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A continuation of the conversation with Dr. Phillip Kayser, a pastor and theologian who has written extensively on the topic of rights, history, and resistance to tyranny. We talk through the concept of limited government, and the justification of the first 10 amendments in the Bill of Rights.
The Divine Right of Resistance by Dr. Kayser
Additional materials on Limiting Government
The Book That Made Your World by Vishal Mangalwadi
The Founder's Constitution (online version | paperback)
The Citizen's Rule Book
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0:00.0 | So what exactly are rights and where exactly do they come from? |
0:05.0 | We talk about them quite a bit as a presupposition for our Second Amendment rights, First Amendment rights and others, but where exactly does this idea originate? |
0:20.0 | Welcome back to another TREX talk, and I'm happy to have with me once again, Dr. Kaiser. |
0:27.3 | Dr. Kaiser, you've been on the show once before, and we talked about rights as they applied pretty directly to the Second Amendment. |
0:35.2 | And there was great feedback from that show. People were extremely |
0:39.1 | appreciative. Some people asked that we dig really deep into specific applications, but a number of |
0:46.1 | people also wondered if we could zoom out and just say, what is a right and where does it come from? |
0:53.0 | We talked quite a bit about the founders, |
0:55.0 | the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, |
0:57.0 | the things that they put into the Bill of Rights, |
0:59.0 | but where exactly did they get these ideas? |
1:03.0 | We talked about some of the ideas of the time, |
1:05.0 | but what would you like to talk about? |
1:07.0 | And thank you once again for another conversation. |
1:11.4 | You're very welcome. I'm pleased to be with you. |
1:15.1 | I have really a same approach to rights that I think the majority of our founding fathers did. |
1:22.6 | And that is that rights are something that comes from God. They're not just something natural in the wild. |
1:29.3 | In the wild, we're just a bag of chemicals if God does not exist. |
1:33.3 | And rights really make no sense. |
1:35.4 | So I had sent you earlier a little bit more technical definition, which I'll read to you. |
1:41.6 | A human right is a privilege granted by God, written on the heart and codified |
1:47.8 | in scripture that gives humans a lawful authority to something that cannot be taken away without |
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