Michael Crapo Quotes
The Declaration calls us to recognize the inherent equality of all people. And when it becomes unmistakably evident that a government is denying the governed life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, it's the right of people to establish a new government to secure these unalienable rights.
Crapo, Mike. "July 4th Commemorates America's Independence." Official Website of U.S. Senator Mike Crapo, United States Senate, Jul. 2004.
Jefferson had deliberately modified John Locke’s phrase “life, liberty and property.
The preamble to this declaration of womens’ rights cleverly beginy s with the words of the Declaration of Independence with the single change that “all men” is replaced with “all men and women.” The message was clear. If the founders had a moral right and duty to revolt for these objectives women would be justified and duty bound to make similar efforts. That message terrified many men of the era.
This quotation has been used by gay rights advocates. Opponents argue that a gay lifestyle is not “innocent” in that it is Biblically prohibited. This brings the issue of separation of church and state into the argument.
Those who support the right of the individual woman to use contraception or have an abortion cite this quotation to illustrate this early statement of the right of a person to have control over his or her own body.
This was written and adopted by Vermont a decade before the United States Constitution the ideas for which were in existence in America before the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
Michael Dean Crapo is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Idaho, a seat he was first elected to in 1998. A Republican, he was the U.S. Representative for Idaho's 2nd congressional district from 1993 to 1999.
