Independence Day!
On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence. When reading the text it's difficult not to see how history repeats itself.
If you continue to read you would be amazed at the similarities to "the king" and our current administration. Strange isn't it...
Anyway, here to faith that people will remember what this country stands for. United...for Freedom...
God Bless America! (and by God I mean who ever you pray too..because that is your freedom)
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.
If you continue to read you would be amazed at the similarities to "the king" and our current administration. Strange isn't it...
Anyway, here to faith that people will remember what this country stands for. United...for Freedom...
God Bless America! (and by God I mean who ever you pray too..because that is your freedom)
You got that right!
ReplyDeleteThis made me think about Thomas Jefferson and what he would think of the current state of government in the United States.
ReplyDeleteI'm not a Jeffersonian by any stretch of the imagination and I find many of his views to be too radical for reality but I don't think the author of our Declaration of Independance would be all that pleased with the current state of affairs.