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Thursday, January 31, 2008
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Declaration of Independence
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 Tyranny 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 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.
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 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 Connexions 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 Connexion 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 Honour.
John Hancock.
GEORGIA, Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, Geo. Walton.
NORTH-CAROLINA, Wm. Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn.
SOUTH-CAROLINA, Edward Rutledge, Thos Heyward, junr. Thomas Lynch, junr. Arthur Middleton.
MARYLAND, Samuel Chase, Wm. Paca, Thos. Stone, Charles Carroll, of Carrollton.
VIRGINIA, George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Ths. Jefferson, Benja. Harrison, Thos. Nelson, jr. Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton.
PENNSYLVANIA, Robt. Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benja. Franklin, John Morton, Geo. Clymer, Jas. Smith, Geo. Taylor, James Wilson, Geo. Ross.
DELAWARE, Caesar Rodney, Geo. Read.
NEW-YORK, Wm. Floyd, Phil. Livingston, Frank Lewis, Lewis Morris.
NEW-JERSEY, Richd. Stockton, Jno. Witherspoon, Fras. Hopkinson, John Hart, Abra. Clark.
NEW-HAMPSHIRE, Josiah Bartlett, Wm. Whipple, Matthew Thornton.
MASSACHUSETTS-BAY, Saml. Adams, John Adams, Robt. Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry.
RHODE-ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE, &c. Step. Hopkins, William Ellery.
CONNECTICUT, Roger Sherman, Saml. Huntington, Wm. Williams, Oliver Wolcott.
IN CONGRESS, JANUARY 18, 1777.
ORDERED,
THAT an authenticated Copy of the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCY, with the Names of the MEMBERS of CONGRESS, subscribing the same, be sent to each of the UNITED STATES, and that they be desired to have the same put on RECORD.
By Order of CONGRESS,
JOHN HANCOCK, President.
BALTIMORE, in MARYLAND: Printed by MARY KATHARINE GODDARD.
4 comments:
Randy, I read the column you linked to and I feel like this is the crux of the problem.
Quote, "In summary: If Paul does not win the nomination vote for him as an independent or vote libertarian. This may be the only way to save the soul of the Republican party."
Really Randy? Vote for a different party to save the Republican Party? Why not vote Democrat to save the Republican party. Then after having two lost elections consecutively, they may get their act together. Why not? Why not vote Green? It doesn't make sense. It is sophmoric and wasteful. Even Paul himself said he would not run on a third ticket. Do you really support this type of action?
That was my post.
C.
Hi Chris
For myself, I will no longer vote for the lesser of two evils. I would never vote for McCain under any circumstances. Would you have me vote for a rapist because he isn't a murderer? [I am not accusing anyone of rape or murder; this is an illustration.]
Like you, I find the two remaining candidates for the D's repugnant, but not any more than McCain. In my opinion: He will abuse the power of the office. He will violate his oath of office. He will continue the failed foreign policy and extend it further. He will further destroy our civil liberties. He has no clue about economics. Would you seriously suggest that my precious endorsement would be better spent on him?
I am very sad that the R's have lost their way, but I will not sell my soul and go down with them just to be a "Team player". They are rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. The two leading R's argue about who is the most conservative, but in my opinion neither of them is a conservative. They are whores. They will say whatever it takes to get elected (just like the D's). They have no integrity.
Of course I would like my candidate to win. But I won't abandon him as long as he stands on right principles.
I gather you missed the point about saving the soul of the R's. As a parent, you don't reward bad behavior; do you? Why would I reward the R's with my support when they have left the constitution? I don't know the writer of the piece you quoted, but I think his point is that the R's will continue to loose until they get their collective head out the poop pouch.
BTW, personal attacks like the crack about being sophomoric are beneath you and do not persuade me.
Hey Randy,
A few points on your comment.
First, there was no personal attack on you, at any time. Unless you were the author of the column and I missed that point. I don't think you were. The column was sophomoric, not you.
Second, you assume that we have a failed foreign policy specifically in the Middle East, yet the facts to bear this out. We are succeeding in a global war on terror, and it comes a day at time. We are succeeding in Iraq. We are succeeding in Afghanistan, albeit slowly. Our leading these people to form their own governments, and begin rebuilding is working as opposed out our, "well we beat the Russians lets go home" policy that gave us the Taliban. Carter failed to support "the lesser of two evils" so you call it, and we wound up with a state sponsor of terror, with world wide ramifications. This is not a viable or well thought out policy.
Third, I would have you vote Republican because they support a few of the ideals that you stand for. The democrats do not support any.
Fourth I don't really like McCain either, but I don't run the party do I? Things are not going to change overnight. They are not going to change with a single election. Or even two. If you choose to not support conservatism then how can the changes of conservatism ever come to pass? It is about baby steps. McCain has some positives and some negatives just as Romney. Do you really want to enable a dem to win? Would you like the liar and thief Clinton to win? Does defeating her in any context sound like a good idea for the country? Again I will point out that even Ron Paul himself said he won't run on third ticket. I think that should mean something.
Fifth, Republicans have gone somewhat a stray. They have slowly abandoned their principals of conservatism, no question. But look at the last two presidential elections, which was the better choice between Bush and Kerry and Gore? Where would we be with either of those two retards in office? Attacked by terrorists, our economy would be in the tank, not precariously on the edge, and our government would have grown by half as a conservative guess.
Sixth, as a parent I don't expect that my child because he is not everything I want him to be, I would not support him in a partial victory. Did he come up short? Of course, he is not a ten year old Manchester United goalie, but that does not mean I hold every shortcoming as reason to stop supporting him at all. That would just be silly.
Bush is far from the conservative I want him to be. But he is a step in the right direction, and if we don't quit in disgust we will continue to move in the right direction.
Lastly, do I expect you to be a 'team player'? Yes I do. By not voting it does nothing but enable the left to gain ground. So your guy won't make it. My guy ran a pathetic shameful campaign. So do we want to enable the left to further gain ground, grow the government, fail to protect its citizens, lie, cheat, and steal? No I don't think either of us thinks that is a good idea.
Unless the Ron Paul supporters help to move the party one election, one issue, and one vote in congress at a time, how could Ron Paul or the next incarnation of his politics hope to ever have the candidate they are looking for? In this day in age we are not going to have such a radical shift in voter opinion in one fell swoop.
C.
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