Posted on 07/03/2009 8:03:59 AM PDT by Shellybenoit
When was the last time you read the Declaration of Independence? REALLY READ IT. Understand what it really means, and how our founders thought that government should be empowered.
How it starts off by saying that government serves at the will of the people not the other way around:
Or that it says freedom doesn't come from government it comes from God and governments primary purpose it to protect these individual freedoms each and every person:
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.
When I read this wonderful document this morning it occurred to me that many people in the United States Government would object to the wording of the Declaration of Independence if it needed to be passed today.
Allow me to suggest that for this Independence Day, you take the time to really this amazing document. It Follows Below:
(Excerpt) Read more at yidwithlid.blogspot.com ...
One of the most beautiful documents ever written. Content, style, organization, message...obviously one for the ages. What a disgrace the American public has permitted criminals in Washington to trample on this great work. But then, how many “Americans” have neither read, nor even heard of the Declaration?
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