(OSV News) -- Every year, Americans celebrate Independence Day, the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. On this day, we affirm the Declaration's assertion that humans are endowed with unalienable rights to "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness," and that the purpose of government is to secure those rights. When the government becomes destructive of those rights, the Declaration continues, it is the prerogative of the people to abolish and replace that power with one that protects them. The Continental Congress, having determined that the prevailing government had indeed become destructive of those rights, declared on July 4, 1776, that the "united States of America" were to be "Free and Independent States," founded upon those unalienable…