As David writes, “The authors of the Declaration of Independence understood that only a government that acknowledges a source of legitimacy over and above politics can protect the individual from the state. If men are ‘endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,’ no collective entity has a right to total domination.”
Drawing on the history of the Decembrists, the Soviet dissident movement, and the Helsinki Groups, the essay argues that Russia’s path to freedom depends not simply on political change, but on embracing the enduring principles of inherent human dignity, individual liberty, and limited government embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
Read the full essay in The Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/opinion/
