By Ashley Vaughan

“Where do our rights come from?”

Scanning the audience, Mike Winther, founder of Institute for Principle Studies, invited audience participation. “We need to list every possible source of our rights.”

Potential answers started flowing from the audience, “The majority!” “The Constitution?” “Government!” “Maybe there’s no such thing as rights.” Each option was written on the whiteboard at the front of the room. One jokester in the front of the room shouted out, “Space aliens!” That too was dutifully added to the board.

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