In recent years, our analysis of the Constitution has failed to understand the importance of Natural Rights, Natural Law, and Natural Born Citizenship.

A heartbeat can be detected 18 days into a pregnancy. By what authority can one stop a beating heart? Surely not the constitution. A beating heart has Natural Rights that trump man's law. The State can neither grant them by means of a "Bill of Rights", nor take them away. Ironically, if we never had a "Bill of Rights", we might now not have the problem of abortion, for we would be looking at Rights that we inherit from our parents rather than rights that are recognized on account of birth location.

By the same token, the union of a man and a woman in marriage is derived from "Natural Law", not from a license granted by the State. Natural Law looks to Adam and Eve, and to the 10 Commandments for its authentication. Our Constitution does not define "marriage", because the definition in Natural Law (and in the Bible) is thought to be perfectly clear. In defending the Constitution, we must defend the "natural" definition of marriage. They are impossible to separate.

The Federalists fought tooth and nail against having a "Bill of Rights" because they knew that rights which could be granted by government could also be taken away. We Republicans are the natural descendants of these Federalists, not of their opposition "Democrats". We believe in human rights that are God-given, at conception, and cannot be taken away. We also believe in Natural Law that we have no right to change and that extends directly to the individual and to families composed of fathers and mothers, men and wives, children, their relationship to other men, and most importantly to their relationship with God the Creator.

Needless to say, if we understood the meaning of "Natural", we also wouldn't have a President playing games with the clear Constitutional mandate that he be a "Natural Born Citizen." The term "Natural Born Citizen" is in the unamended Constitution. It is not addressed in the Bill of Rights. Neither is it well defined in any part of the U.S. Code. The fight to rediscover the meaning of "Natural Born Citizen" is not merely about presidential politics. It is closely connected to our fight to maintain the Founders' insistence that government is the creature "of the people", and that every citizen possesses a personal sovereignty that supersedes all her claims and all the "rights" that she might grant.