It is a very good way. But you need the Natural Law element.
Consider these very separate in time quotes
“Miracles do not cluster. Hold on to the Constitution of the United States of America and the republic for which it stands. What has happened once in six thousand years may never happen again. Hold on to your Constitution, for if the American Constitution shall fail there will be anarchy throughout the world.”
-Daniel Webster
And then many years later
If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. Pres Calvin Coolidge
So Webster testifies to the uniqueness of the American experiment and Coolidge to the rational eternal spiritual nature of our principles