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During a recent confirmation hearing for the U.S. Senate , Tim Kaine, a Democratic senator from Virginia, actively contested the view that our rights come from God.

"The statement that our rights do not come from our laws or our government is extremely troubling," Kaine said, comparing the notion that rights "come from the creator" to the theocratic government of Iran.

Kaine’s comments, which are of course outrageous, are tinged by a delicious irony: Virginia , the state the senator serves, was the state of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, both of whom took it as fundamental to our democracy that our rights come not from the government but from God.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident," Jefferson famously wrote

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