Declaration Foundation

When the Patriot Fathers of '76 finally saw that they were compelled to declare independence from Britain, the central ground was simple and single. The Declaration itself contained a long list of abuses, but running through them all was this: the People's right to rule itself was under sustained attack by the King and his ministers.

Victory in the Revolution meant, above all, that that right would be enshrined in American foundational law. The Constitution was meant to make that victory permanent. Each American election in the three centuries since that victory, be it local or national, presents an opportunity to exercise that right, and a duty to defend it.

The current election is, in that sense, no different. And yet, it is different, in two ways. First, this election is menaced by a prospect of fraud, and a threat of litigation, greater than any since the time of the Civil War. The civic-minded reader needs no evidence to undergird my claim. The signs of irregular voter registration, fraudulent registration forms, non-citizens names appearing on the rolls, etc., is on the front pages of the Republic's newspapers. The parties, particularly the Democratic Party, have legions of lawyers positioned to take the verdict of the votes that are tallied to our activist liberal judges looking for a partisan revision of the tallies in the states. This is judicial usurpation, deliberate and premeditated, and based on factional passion.

Second, the electoral campaign itself is bitter and divisive, in large measure, due to the wish of one party to continue the reign of judicial usurpation, and the other to restrain it. Laws and initiatives passed by the people and their legislatures, manifestly in accordance with Declaration Principle and popular will, have been overturned by judges of political views too well known to need identification. Other initiatives have been kept from the ballot by the same class of judicial tyrants. One party salutes these acts of despotism, the other, sometimes, deplores them.

The election is thus about Declaration Principles, and their application to such matters as marriage, life, equality, and property rights, in a gross and palpable way.

The answer is simple. Do your duty. Vote. And vote as Adams and Jefferson, Lincoln and Frederick Douglas would have voted. For life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, unfettered by self-anointed and amoral aristocrats. Do your duty. Volunteer to be a poll watcher, and keep your eyes open for fraud. Do your duty, and defend, to your fellow citizens, in the little circles of society, in twos and threes, in the churches and clubs, the principles of the Republic. Do your duty. Don't rely on the lying media to feed the candidates' ideas to you in predigested and distorted bits. Read their speeches and platforms, visit their websites.

The Declaration Foundation does not take stands for or against candidates. But it can, and does, link you via the best of our free press, to what the candidates actually propose. Read the Bush/Kerry debates. Or the wonderfully illuminating Keyes/Obama debates, which bring out American Principles in a stark and intelligible manner. No one need be ignorant of what divides Coburn from Carson, in Oklahoma, or Boxer from Jones, in California. Find out who stands for unalienable rights in your state and our nation, and vote accordingly.

And then go to sleep on election night, knowing that you have, for this season and this day, done the Lord's work, and that the fate of the battle lies in His loving hands.

He will call you again, November 3rd, to the new task he intends for you. Serve Him, and you will never be on the losing side.

Deserves repeating.

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