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
Could you imagine a document today that mentioned a creator? It would be before the Supreme Court before you could blink.
with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, Except for the unborn
liberty Unless you choose not to have health insurance, you have no liberty in that decision. Or if you want to place a political ad before an election or a host of other issues.
and the pursuit of happiness. Unless you enjoy shooting sports. Unless you enjoy making money without being penalized.
That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Or by Supreme Court decision.
That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to 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 shown 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.
Substitute “The present president of the US and Congress” for the “present King of Great Britain” and the similarities are erie. 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. Check
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. The BP oil spill anyone? Jindal tried to build barriers to prevent the oil from reaching land and was rebuked by the king.. er president. He has personally attacked Jan Brewer in Arizona fro trying to do her job and protect her state.
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. His czars fit nicely into this category.
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 meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands. Unfortunately just the opposite. He has tried to flood the country with new liberals from all over the world.
He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has allowed the New Black Panther party to escape voter intimidation in PA because it was on his behalf.
He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. Litmus tests.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance. Not even debatable. Czars, he's increased the IRS by thousands. He uses the unions such as the SEIU to harrass the people.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature. Apparently bad for Bush to have a war in the Middle East but not for barry.
He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to 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: His administration has embraced the small arms treaty in the UN as well as other UN activities that are in direct opposition to our own Constitution. He has also encouraged his judges to look to foreign law.
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: His civilian corps (pronounced core, not corps) that he wants to form.
For protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states: See New Black Panther party.
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world: Through economic turmoil. Nobody wants to trade with us and we have nothing to trade.
For imposing taxes on us without our consent: The largest tax increase in history starts in six months.
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:
For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses:
For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring 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 in these colonies: Through Net Neutrality and his Internet kill switch he is taking away the freedom of our use of the internet.
For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments: He has abolished our most valuable law in the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution by imposing federal will against the wishes of the people. Such as the indisputable unConstitutional health care bill.
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, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. Look at his economy.
He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. Census workers.
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 divided this country along political lines more sharply than at any time in our history. This has been by design.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is 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. We tried talking. We've tried making our voice heard in Town Hall meetings last year and were ignored.
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 attention to our British 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. This mirrors the lefts complaints against Bush that they now ignore when done by barry. They hold party over principle.
We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world Again, we could never mention God in a modern document. I'm surprised someone hasn't taken the Declaration to court yet. for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the 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.
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