By KEVIN MCCABE
In 1776, a 38-year-old monarch ruled the world’s largest empire. King George III, a one-world globalist by today’s standards, believed sovereignty rested with the crown. He imposed this tyranny with a familiar list of offenses: a rigged justice system, martial law, political persecution, and incitement of domestic unrest. The people he ruled, our forebears, stood up and said no.
Those men, many of them preachers, farmers, shopkeepers, and scholars, did not have titles or armies behind them. What they had was conviction, courage, and a belief that rights come not from kings, but from our Creator. Among those rights, in fact the very first listed, was the right to life. Without the right to life, no other right – liberty, property, or the pursuit of happiness – can exist. The founders placed life first because it is the sacred gift from which all freedom flows, a truth that compels us to protect every human life, born and unborn.
The Declaration of Independence is not just a historical document. It is a moral contract between “We the People.” The founders appealed to the Supreme Judge of the World because they believed the fight for liberty was not only political, but supremely spiritual. They understood that no government has the authority to take what God has given: not life, not liberty, and not the pursuit of happiness.
They pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor. And they paid dearly. Eleven signers of the Declaration lost their homes. Five were captured. Nine died during the war. Seventeen served in combat. These men were not chasing glory; they were Cathedral Builders, laboring selflessly to construct a nation that would stand as a beacon of freedom for generations to come. Benjamin Franklin said, “We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.” He was not being poetic. He was being brutally honest.
Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1774, ‘The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.’ This truth—that life and liberty are inseparable divine gifts—formed the heart of the Declaration, compelling us to defend every human life, born and unborn, as the foundation of all rights.”
John Adams, writing to his wife Abigail in 1776, foresaw the cost of freedom: “I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure it will cost us to maintain this Declaration… Yet through all the gloom I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory.” His vision of hope through sacrifice reminds us that defending life and liberty requires unwavering resolve, just as it did then. The founders fought to protect the vulnerable from tyranny’s grasp. If we fail to defend the lives of the most vulnerable of all, the unborn, we betray the very reason this nation was founded.
This means supporting policies, organizations, and communities that protect life from conception, ensuring that every child is given the chance to live and thrive as the founders intended.
We hear much these days about rights, reproductive rights, privacy rights, health care rights, but we hear little about responsibility. The Greek word for citizen is “πολίτης” (polítis), which means co-ruler, co-king. That is your role in a Republic, someone entrusted to guard the rights and liberties of your neighbor just as firmly as your own. We don’t outsource indivisible freedom. We steward it.
Daniel Webster warned that miracles do not cluster. What happened once in six thousand years, he said, may never happen again. “Hold on to the Constitution,” he urged, “for if it should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.” He was right. The Constitution is not just ink on parchment; it is the last firewall against tyranny.
President Donald Trump said it well in 2020: “Make no mistake. The left-wing cultural revolution is designed to overthrow the American Revolution.” There are those who seek not justice or equality, but power. In that pursuit, some would erase history, silence debate, undermine the sanctity of life, and dismantle the freedoms that lifted billions out of poverty and oppression.
But we will not bow or kneel to that agenda. We kneel only to Almighty God.
We believe in free speech, not speech codes. We believe in equal justice under law, not two-tiered enforcement. We believe that every person, of every color and creed, is made in the holy image of God, and that includes the unborn.
John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, wrote that the Revolution was marked by such divine favor that future generations might be tempted to dismiss it as a myth. It was not a myth. It was a miracle.
John Adams saw the birth of this nation as part of a grand design for the emancipation of mankind. If we are to honor that design, we must defend the rights it was built upon, especially the right to life, from conception to natural death.
We celebrated Independence Day yesterday, not just with parades and fireworks, but with resolve. A Republic means the people are king, ruling through their representatives. That is a tremendous responsibility. It means that “We, The People,” must protect our marvelous inheritance. As Senator Henry Cabot Lodge said in 1919, “Beware how you trifle with it, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.”
So today, as we stand on the shoulders of giants, let each of us recommit to the-cause they bled for: defending the sacred dignity of all human life, born and unborn, upholding the rule of law, and ensuring a government that serves rather than rules. Let us protect the unborn, honor the Constitution, and never forget that liberty requires constant vigilance.
We stand on the shoulders of giants. Let us build a nation worthy of their legacy.
Rep. Kevin McCabe serves in the Legislature on behalf of District 30, Big Lake.
Interesting that the Democrats slogan, “No Kings”
is their battle cry to resist Trump and MAGA. That very political transformation had occured with Obama and Joe Biden running the White House for 12 years. The Trump Revolt is destroying that transformation. America is free once again, while half the country is in therapy with TDS.
You have TDS as well, only on the other end of the spectrum. See?
Dog, when you come to MRAK try to use critical thinking, even when pondering the slightest argumentation. Your remarks might pass muster over at Dermot Cole’s blog, where a simple donation gets you honorable mention at a minimum, but not with Suzanne. TDS is a symptom involving a much deeper emotional conflict innate in Democrats and persons with profound envy.
Ok, you must have distemper, get to the vet right away, before the convulsions start, you’re a!ready hallucinating
Well said Kevin! This defines America very well. Thank you. Please consider running for Governor.
Our Constitutional Republic has long been abandoned many generations ago. Our modern society is neither biblically grounded, nor educated and without any comprehension of a sovereign citizen. The effort and responsibility required of each citizen to create and then maintain a Constitutional Republic is far too much for the mass of inhabitants of these 50 states.
Each generation willingly and incrementally gave up the foundations required to maintain what was won and then handed down by those British subjects who risked all and fought to create the Republic to us today.
It is good to publish and remember our founding precepts, but our country has a lot further to fall, and experience of the ensuing poverty and chaos to experience from the rule of selfish, morale less, greedy and selfish “leaders” before the chance of commencing the long hard trail to regain what we had.
Currently bread and circuses suffice to pacify the public.
“The founders placed life first because it is the sacred gift from which all freedom flows, a truth that compels us to protect every human life, born and unborn.” How about immigrants Representative? The Founders realized ALL HUMANS have Natural Rights, not just citizens. How do you square the treatment of immigrants today (including children) with what the founders had envisioned?
You are quite right that we should be very aware of losses of freedom and liberty. I think you have a bit of a Trump “Blind Spot” though if you think we don’t need to worry now. Masked government agents raiding a Home Depot to look for who they think may be undocumented would probably not fly so well in Boston in 1776.
Kevin, another great article. Thank you.
You identified a “rigged justice” system as a component of tyranny. This is what we have in Alaska, especially when it comes to our grand juries.
The Alaska Supreme Court and the Dept. of Law have conspired to eradicate the independence of the grand jury and its reporting powers guaranteed by Article I, Section 8 of our Constitution.
The innocent are their casualties.
The importance of an independent grand jury in keeping tyranny in check can’t be overemphasized. In 1765 a Boston grand jury refused to indict the leaders of the Stamp Act riots. When John Hancock was harassed by royal authorities, the grand jury censured the prosecutor. Those grand juries were strong and independent, vital to the preservation of liberty we value so highly.
Founding Father James Wilson called the grand jury a “great channel of communication between those who make and administer the laws and those for whom the laws are made and administered.”
Founding Father Francis Hopkinson said the grand jury is “a body of truth and power inferior to none but the legislature itself.”
Today, grand juries in Alaska are dominated by prosecutors who have prevented investigations into State corruption and have misled jurors on issues of fact and law in criminal proceedings. When grand jurors have tried to exercise their independence, judges have stifled them. The pursuit of truth and justice, the primary objective in the courtroom, has become a casualty.
Tyranny prevails in Alaska. Will you pledge to help fight it and restore the independence of the grand jury?
Alaska Constitution Article I Section 1. “This constitution is dedicated…that all persons are equal and entitled to equal rights, opportunities, and protection under the law; and that all persons have corresponding obligations to the people and to the State.” Article I Section 7. “No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law…”
We the people need our elected public officials to protect our Constitutions and Constitutional rights. Governor Dunleavy has the executive power (Article III Section 1) and he is responsible for the faithful execution of the laws (Article III Section 16).
SCO 1993 violates an individual’s constitutional right to make a presentment before a grand jury that addresses the public welfare and safety. We need our Senators and Representatives by two-thirds vote of the members elected to each house to withdraw SCO 1993.
When a judge(s) fails to faithfully follow the letter of the law, canons, rules, etc., then justice and equal protection under the law FAILS and an Alaskan legal citizen’s life and his/her family’s lives have become marinated in trauma and injustice, and the court of law now has become a court of lawlessness.
Alaskans need a remedy to the wrongs that have and are happening. Attorney General Taylor’s first allegiance is to the public interest and he can assist the Governor to remedy the wrongs and ensure that justice prevails in Alaska for all Alaskans.
Alaska needs judicial reform. Talk to your Senator and Representative about review and selection of judges.
Senators and Representatives need to continue to introduce bills regarding the review and selection of judges. A constitutional amendment is needed to amend Article IV The Judiciary, Sections 8 and 10.
Alaska needs judicial reform.
There is Law (upper-case) of YHWH; and there is law (lower-case) of man. Our constitution is lower-case law of men. Nowhere does it imply, or otherwise state therein, that the individual rights it protects apply to anyone other than American citizens. Accordingly, our constitution does not protect the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness of citizens of Russia, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, or any other country. Our constitution does not protect victims of slavery, kidnapping or extortion in other countries; its simply not our business. So, who are the American citizens we protect?
The 14th Amendment says, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” A clear reading of this clause shows our constitution does not protect unborn humans in America any more than it does those in Uzbekistan. Its quite clear, if we want to protect unborn humans in America, we need a constitutional amendment.
Our little, man-made (lower-case), laws always seem deficient and needy. YHWH speaks to us through our conscience; therefore, we know very well His Law protects the lives of unborn humans.
Pause quietly on your knees. He calls, “if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” 2 Chron 7:14