Excerpt from "The Farmer Refuted"

 

From: "The Farmer Refuted," by Alexander Hamilton "The Supreme Being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving and beautifying that existence ... and invested him with an inviolable right to personal liberty and personal safety ...

"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records.  They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the Hand of  Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power ...

"Good and wise men, in all ages ... have supposed that the Deity, from the relations we stand in to Himself, and to each other, has constituted an eternal and immutable law, which is indispensably obligatory upon all mankind ... This is what is called the law of nature ... dictated by God himself."