At the founding of our nation all of the Founders, including the deists, and all Americans knew they were living souls embedded within flesh. They knew that it’s our personal souls that give shape and life to the physical matter that is our body and that their living souls were the one and only source of their personhood, individual personality, and of their mind, memory, will, and conscience, contained within the spirit of our souls. Spirit is the citadel of soul and is to the soul what fleshy brain is to body. Spirit interfaces with the world through the marvelous brain designed by our Creator for that purpose.
In this light, our Constitutional rights are predicated upon our inner person (soul/spirit), not our physical bodies and fleshy brains. It’s our spirit and/or mind that thinks, wills, and remembers. The personal, living God Who created man gave him a mind to think with and words to express his thoughts. Every time a Darwinian materialist denies the existence of his soul while using the mind/spirit given him by God to do so, he unwittingly confesses the truth before the living God and angels. So there is no escaping the lies told in this world..
Death occurs to the body when the soul departs for eternity to stand before the living God Who created him, he will have to account for how he used or abused the time (life) given him in this world.
Note that the body dies but not the soul. The physical body can be killed by bullets, poison, knives, and so on but the soul is immortal, as the Founders knew, early Americans knew, and Florence Farmborough knew: @Linda
“What a frail and fragile thing is human life! A bullet passes through the flesh and it ceases to live. But a bullet cannot kill the soul; one knows, most assuredly, that the Spirit—God’s breath in man–returns to God Who gave it. Oh! one must believe and trust in God’s mercy, otherwise these frightful sights would work havoc with one’s brain; and one’s heart would faint with the depth of its despair.”
—Florence Farmborough, “”With the Armies of the Tsar: A Nurse at the Russian Front 1914-1918“