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🧵Roots of Liberty A Primer on the Natural Origins of Rights The Great Divide: Inalienable Nature v Contractual Consent At the heart of the American experiment lies a profound ontological distinction that determines whether a person remains a sovereign moral agent or is reduced to a managed subject. This is the divide between inalienable rights and contractual permissions. That term ‘ontological’ is of foundational significance because it remains the target for negation and usurpation by powerful interests vested in the subjugation of man through the negation of the ontological function of America’s Declaration of Independence and Constitutional Republican governance. The non-negotiable ontological foundation of the American order is the recognition that rights are not products of human will or social negotiation, but ontological properties of the human person grounded in the reality of his or her endowed created nature. Modern ‘contractarian theories’ attempt to substitute the ground of rights from what a person is (which is inalienable) to what persons agree to (which is alienable). This substitution is sometimes concealed by a rhetorical ‘natural rights language’ used as a deceptive gloss. In operation however, once rights are moved to the realm of contract, they cease to be rights (inalienable) and become revocable permissions (alienable) administered by a system.