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The Creator Is Load-Bearing

The metaphysics of unalienable rights, political jurisdiction, and the meaning of “endowed”

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Courtenay Turner
Sep 15, 2026
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This essay began in a comment thread.

When Patrick Wood and I released A Digital Bill of Rights for the States, a reader named Jim Reagen offered a rewritten Preamble — thoughtful, generous, and grounded not in a Creator but in nature, self-determination, and human creativity. He was not opposing the document. He was trying to strengthen it.

In the course of a though…

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