[BroJoeK]

Tell It Right: "That doesn't say, "Hey, England. We have to tell you why we're leaving, so here it is."
It's saying why our Founding Fathers couldn't just sit on their tails and do nothing."

Seriously?
Why are you fantasizing nonsense?

The Declaration says what it says and means what our Founders intended it to mean, not whatever you fantasize they might have thought.

The Declaration of Independence is:

1. First & foremost the instrument of independence -- the legal document which made the United States of America an independent country.

2. An explanation of the basic whys and wherefores of declaring independence.

3. A legal case based on: "a decent respect to the opinions of mankind" and so, "To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world."

   

4. A moral case based on: "Laws of Nature and of Nature's God"

5. Those laws include such "self-evident truths" as:
   • All men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights.

   • Those rights include life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

   • That governments are instituted, by the consent of the governed, to secure such rights, and whenever governments become destructive of those ends, then people have a right to replace their government.

As the instrument of Independence, the Declaration was printed in many copies, then sent throughout the 13 new states and around the world, including to British officials in America, who soon sent it to the British government in London.
But the Declaration was not addressed to the British government or its king, but rather to "the opinions of mankind" and "a candid world".

The Declaration went to great lengths to make its legal and moral case that independence was not at pleasure or "for light and transient reasons", but rather a matter of total necessity -- a word repeated several times to insure the point is not missed.

Final point here: the United States did not go to war against the Confederacy because of secession alone.
Rather, the US went to war -- just as any country of that time would -- when Confederates began firing artillery at Union forces in Fort Sumter, forcing them to surrender.

So, a lot nonsense from our pro-Confederate apologists just doesn't correspond to actual historical facts.

[DiogenesLamp]

An explanation of the basic whys and wherefores of declaring independence.

Let me help you with this.

" 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.

This is easy. The only thing required is "consent of the governed."

Once the "governed" have withdrawn their consent, they have a right to form a new government.

Basic freedom right there.