THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE REVISITED

Plagiarizing the original Declaration, I borrow from its words as I state that “…such is now the necessity which constrains the People of the United State of America to alter its current system of government. The history of the present branches of government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the eventual establishment of an absolute tyranny over these citizens.”

I do not call for an end to the Republic or to the U.S. Constitution, but for an end to the dynasty of elitist politicians who have for decades abused and injured the country and its People. “To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.”

Paradoxically, the following facts very closely replicate those noted in the original Declaration of Independence. Delineating the many complaints that the colonists presented to England in 1776, they demonstrate clearly the fears of our forefathers, and the failures of those who now govern us. Over 230 years later, we have nearly the same complaints against our government in Washington, D.C. as the colonists had against England in 1776. To wit:

The government of the United States has enacted laws contrary to the Constitution and to the public good.

It has passed laws that have been conditional on the states and their citizens to relinquish their rights to local representation, rights inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

It has forbidden the states and their citizens to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance through the intervention of courts determined to legislate to the People rather than to try matters at hand according to Article III of the U.S. Constitution.

It has failed its obligations to the People, through demands, expense and venue, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with its measures.

It has penalized and injured the states and their citizens repeatedly, for opposing with firmness its invasions on the rights of the states and the People.

It has refused for a long time to fulfill its obligations to protect the Republic from enemies, foreign and domestic, the Republic remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without and convulsions within.

It has made judges dependent on its will alone for the tenure of their offices and the amount and payment of their salaries.

It has erected a multitude of new offices and sent hither swarms of officers to harass the People and eat out their substance.

It has combined with others in an attempt to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution and unacknowledged by our laws, giving its assent to their acts of pretended legislation.

For imposing taxes on us without our consent.

For depriving us, through public discussion and innuendo in many cases, of the benefit of fair trial by jury.

For altering fundamentally the forms of our governments.

For superseding our state legislatures and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

It has plundered our wealth, destroying the incentives and lives of the People.

It has excited domestic division by its efforts to incite and prolong class warfare and racial tensions.

The People have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms, to be ignored or answered by repeated injury. Leaders, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define tyrants, are unfit to be the leaders of a free People.

We have reminded them continuously of the limits to their power and authority. We have appealed to the native justice and magnanimity and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow their usurpations and abuses. They have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore hold this government accountable for its usurpations and abuses.

We, therefore, the People of the United States of America, in General Congress, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name and by the authority of the good People of the states, and the Constitution of these United States, solemnly publish and declare…….that the People are, and of right ought to be free and independent persons, and that the current government ought to be totally dissolved for the purpose of restoring the full protections provided by the U.S. Constitution and the limitations of the powers of a government of the People, by the People and for the People.

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 honor.