Declaration of Independence - This is one founding document that we seem to shove in the back - We need to bring it out and remember we have a duty as United States Citizens.
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
The 56 signatures on the Declaration appear in the positions indicated:
Column 1
Georgia:
Button Gwinnett
Lyman Hall
George Walton
Column 2
North Carolina:
William Hooper
Joseph Hewes
John Penn
South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge
Thomas Heyward, Jr.
Thomas Lynch, Jr.
Arthur Middleton
Column 3
Massachusetts:
John Hancock
Maryland:
Samuel Chase
William Paca
Thomas Stone
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe
Richard Henry Lee
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Harrison
Thomas Nelson, Jr.
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Carter Braxton
Column 4
Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris
Benjamin Rush
Benjamin Franklin
John Morton
George Clymer
James Smith
George Taylor
James Wilson
George Ross
Delaware:
Caesar Rodney
George Read
Thomas McKean
Column 5
New York:
William Floyd
Philip Livingston
Francis Lewis
Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
Richard Stockton
John Witherspoon
Francis Hopkinson
John Hart
Abraham Clark
Column 6
New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett
William Whipple
Massachusetts:
Samuel Adams
John Adams
Robert Treat Paine
Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins
William Ellery
Connecticut:
Roger Sherman
Samuel Huntington
William Williams
Oliver Wolcott
New Hampshire:
Matthew Thornton
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a Declaration to Restore the Constitutional Republic by jb_uspu
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We talk, and we complain, but there's no one who is stepping forward and speaking out, saying, "Let's take action." There have been some that have shown "Promise". But have succumbed to the influences of Washington, DC.
Everyone seems to be afraid to stand up and say, "This is wrong." We have lost our moral compass, and are letting the voices of those taking us down the wrong way drown us out. We have no true leaders. We need to find someone who will take the heat and not back down, AND WE NEED TO SUPPORT THAT PERSON!
We'll talk the talk, but we won't walk the walk! Why can't we find someone to get behind? Sure there person will represent what seems like a minority, but that minority can still have an influence on those who are struggling looking for direction.
There is no one perfect person, but we need to We don't have gods! There was only one perfect person in the world, and look what they did to him! Accept that fact! Who would you be willing to say, "I'll stand with that person, because they are 'Right'."? If you want perfection, then you are defeated before you even start! You have to realize that.
The best current illustration is Mitt Romney. Remember how they went back to his days in high school to find something to attack him on! You think they won't do they with ANYONE that is put forth? They have to! Look what we got by being so distracted!
Find someone who says what you want; what you believe! Approach them and ask them! Then support them! That person could simply be waiting for signs of support and encouragement before stepping up. Search the voices on the internet to start with. Read what they have said. Who do you agree with? Get to know them. Talk to your friends about that person.
Start taking action.
DO SOMETHING!
Mr Lee,
For your information, I have been claiming the exact complaints as you. In fact, I have posted my phone number for a reply. NOT ONE CALL. Me thinks that those who claim action have no guts to walk the talk. I would follow the ways of our founding fathers. " I pledge my life my wealth and my sacred honor" These bastards ( on both sides of the aisle) will not destroy my country. If they don't care then we have to. We need to get it on and throw all caution aside.
If we leave it up to the elected officials , nothing will get done. This statement applies to today as well as when it was stated by Thomas Jefferson. 'If the president( Continental ) Congress errs in too much talking,how can it be otherwise,in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing and talk by the hour?" Thomas Jefferson - 1821 I guess after 45 years he saw one of the biggest problems that did and still exist.
Great! I'm glad. I myself am in a situation where do to very limited finances I can't travel. So I'm looking for someone to come forward that I can honestly support. When I do I will come out and say so. I thought I saw some people with potential, but they have fallen into the trap, and right now no better then others that I've seen in DC.
I'm not officially a member of the Tea Party, but I believe we need to go back to those principles again. Even the Government of that day. Yes I mean that day. Get rid of ALL of the Cabinet positions that have been developed in the last 100 years! Yes ALL of them.
Return the power to the States. That's where the power was supposed to be. So let's put it back there! The Federal Government got its power from States. The States had it to start with. They gave it States and to provide cohesion to the Governments. It was never intended to do all that it does! Let's go back to that.
That's what I want! That's what I'm looking for! I'll gladly fight for that. Show me the person who will lead in that direction. PLEASE!
" A generous parent would have said,"If there must be trouble,let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." Thomas Paine, Common Sense.
I,m looking at who is in office now. I though there was one from FL that looked good. Not any more.
I want someone who will stand up and say, " No more." No matter what.
Just returned from the 4th of July parade GJ Colorado--wore my Chick-fil-A t-shirt to honor the corporate values of that fast food chain--and to honor a certain Master Sgt. in the US Army, Nathan Sommers penalized for being a Conservative. also wore my camo-pouch carrying some of my Magazines with he note attached (large enough I seem to have offended a Democrat marching in the parade--the lady next tome told her children not to accept candy from "them"(Democrats) My note reads "HEY 'HICK' I HEAR YOU WANT TO CHECK MY MAGAZINES? I Brought Some MAG(azine) PUL(L) A lady at the other end of the rout held a sign reading The Declaration of Independence -READ IT. "I told her I read it just this morning aloud,waiting for the Parade.-when she noticed a pin I was wearing that reads""Marriage" a man and a woman legally united When the State makes laws contrary to the laws dictated by GOD ,Himself--We ought to obey God -Not the State"Which she approved of as well. She said I must be crying inside over what our Military is now going through --and I affirmed her observation on that as well.Hey --I'd rather stand with Colorado Law officers who filed legal action saying our new laws are unConstitutional and workable than stand with "Hick".
They start off sounding that way, and then they fold. They can't/won't take the heat. Yes they're going to be a lightening rod. But in the process they are drawing attention to what they stand for.
I think that's what we need. Explain, don't apologize!
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