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California State Government November 7, 2006 Election
Smart Voter Political Philosophy for Gail K. Lightfoot

Candidate for
Secretary of State; State of California

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WE

[the people]
HOLD
[keep in our minds, believe]
THESE
[listed here]
TRUTHS
[facts]
TO BE SELF-EVIDENT,
[obvious, clear, known to all]
that ALL
[each living man, woman and child]
ARE CREATED EQUAL
[each person is as good as only other person]
[each person is the same in a court of law]
[laws apply to each person in the same manner]
the THEY
[each person]
are ENDOWED
[given - without asking]
by their CREATOR
[maker, nature or god]
with CERTAIN
[some]
UNALIENABLE
[cannot be given away or shared]
RIGHTS,
[something you have that cannot be given away]
that among these are LIFE
[your life is yours to live or take]
LIBERTY
[you are free to make your way in life]
PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
[seek whatever gives you satisfaction and comfort]
-- that to SECURE
[keep safe]
these RIGHTS,
[Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness]
GOVERNMENTS
[ruling body to set up the law]
are INSTITUTED
[created, made, designed, set up]
among MEN
[the word men here is used to say "man as a human" and includes men, women and children, all sexes, all races, all ages, all beliefs]
DERIVING
[taking]
their JUST
[fair and necessary only]
POWERS
[authority, ability to enforce]
from the CONSENT
[permission]
of the GOVERNED
[the people]

Note: From the People To the People.

Governments exist at the will of the people to protect them, nothing more, nothing less. Force and Fraud [a form of force] are prohibited.

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