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Report Copyright Violation | The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
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.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — 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.
New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George WaltonLast Edited by tomasgod1 on 07/04/2012 03:32 AM |
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America I usually do not bump something that I post. Being that it is 4:00 AM on a holiday, I am going to give some leniency. LAZY! GEESH! |
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
New Hampshire:
William Whipple
Quoting: tomasgod1 My Ancestor!! Fuck Yea! |
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America Face pushed, tweeted, google supplied and I am rushing the feeds... Wow; you guys are asking for it! Do you really want me to blog it on my site? You have checked those stats recently, haven't you? Bwahahah! |
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America please pin |
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As I read this I found myself getting more and more angry. What is the difference between those in charge now and King George III? Not a lot, that's for sure.  Thank you for posting this! We need to consider why we celebrate today, beyond the fact that it's a day off for many americans. |
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America As applicable today as it was back then.
I am now a Terrorist, by executive decree, for supporting this document.
Let it come. |
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America Thanks for posting this for today! We all need to read it and often. One of the most important aspects of conspiracy theories is being able to discern when there isn't one.
Oh yeah, like you'd understand anyway.
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America Super Pin !! |
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America Forget the independence......when are you lot going to re-boot the constitution? |
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America Thanks for posting this for today!
We all need to read it and often.
Quoting: Bluebird ^This^  I am a Christian. Christian does not equal doormat or pushover "I Have Sworn upon the Altar of God... Eternal Hostility against every form of Tyranny over the mind of man." -Thomas Jefferson, Sep. 23, 1800  The Election of Donald John Trump: [ link to www.godlikeproductions.com] For previous Newsletters, click 'Scrump's News Letters' @ [ link to www.godlikeproductions.com] |
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness!
-Our food is toxic, GM crap
-We have no liberties anymore, seriously.
-Driving fear down our throats denying happiness.
Happy 4th of July, let's celebrate our public incarceration.
I love America but this is getting ridiculous. |
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America As I read this I found myself getting more and more angry. What is the difference between those in charge now and King George III?
Quoting: Blodeuwedd ummmmm they were elected? just a guess |
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As I read this I found myself getting more and more angry. What is the difference between those in charge now and King George III?
Quoting: Blodeuwedd ummmmm they were elected? just a guess Wrong, we are provide a choice already pre-groomed to serve the elite. Elections were a shame since we got off the gold standard. Just waiting for the Nazi Time troopers on Dec 21 2012....lol |
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America It's ALL back on us now! |
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America WOW, we are set up to lose the majority of this document.RIP uncle sam! “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” – Carl Sagan |
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America A terrorist is just the governments terminology for a potential freedom fighter.
If I am to be called a terrorist then by God I intend to terrorize this government unto its' end.
Tyrants proclaim to uphold the law, but it is only the twisted laws of their own construct that they uphold.
Tyrants claim to have your best interests in mind, but it is their interests that motivate them.
I count 537 tyrants in DC. |
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America "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"
Revolutionary.
They move to kill our freedom and our liberty and call us potential terrorists because we cherish the founding documents our forefathers put their lives, their family and their fortunes on the line to create.
They move to kill the very God of nature from whom all rights are derived.
Kill God, and we have no rights.
Insurrection.
Yes, one man's freedom fighter is another man's insurgent.
They move to make those of us who put Liberty above self-interest insurgents in our own country because a free people are not complacent and they cannot be ruled over.
Wake up. Stand up. Live free, or die.
A government of the people, by the people, and for the people should RESPECT the will of the people and understand that their power is only granted by the will of the governed.
Knowledge IS freedom.
Their ignorance, feigned or real, is no excuse. |
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America  I'm tired of waiting, somebody push the damn button already!
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America "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"
Revolutionary.
They move to kill our freedom and our liberty and call us potential terrorists because we cherish the founding documents our forefathers put their lives, their family and their fortunes on the line to create.
They move to kill the very God of nature from whom all rights are derived.
Kill God, and we have no rights.
Insurrection.
Yes, one man's freedom fighter is another man's insurgent.
They move to make those of us who put Liberty above self-interest insurgents in our own country because a free people are not complacent and they cannot be ruled over.
Wake up. Stand up. Live free, or die.
A government of the people, by the people, and for the people should RESPECT the will of the people and understand that their power is only granted by the will of the governed.
Knowledge IS freedom.
Their ignorance, feigned or real, is no excuse.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 18660575 HUUUUUUUZZAAAAAAAHH, my brother! “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” – Carl Sagan |
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America Happy birthday America........now lets get the 2nd revolution started and lets hang the traitors from the lamp posts and get this country back to what it was founded to be......One Republic Under God.
In my humble opinion.
Omegaman |
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America When are you Americans going to use your right to replace the current corrupt government?
Is Obama really that good? |
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America Not even the original declaration either. |
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America Happy birthday America........now lets get the 2nd revolution started and lets hang the traitors from the lamp posts and get this country back to what it was founded to be......One Republic Under God.
In my humble opinion.
Omegaman
Quoting: omegaman007 If you read about early colonial history, such as in "A People's History of the United States", you see that people had no patience or tolerance for tyrants. Public officials who tried to increase taxes or tariffs, decrease freedom or impose any restrictions on the people were quickly hung, tarred, shot, pitchforked and/or run out of town while their house was burned down... The founding fathers didn't vote, petition or demonstrate their way to freedom: they shot and killed those who would keep them enslaved... And they are rolling in their graves as the freedom they fought and died for is pissed away... |
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America OP ! For God's sake, QUIT using the CORPORATION called the United States of America in posts, when it WAS The united states of America ORIGINALLY !
The CORPORATION CHANGED IT TO The United States of America ! PLEASE WAKE UP ! Your statement helps CONTINUE the LIE ! Unless of course, your are/represent the CORPORATION or are a PARASITIC POLITICIAN, Lawyer or BANKSTER !
Peace !
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America Finland ..... 'Comes the revolution, comrade .... ' |
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America I think it's about time we get some new signatures on it and then take this document and shove a copy up every ones ass. Maybe that will remind them that WE have the power and that THEY work for US! Freedom requires breathing room, the Constitution presupposes that there will be some crazies among us so that the rest of us can enjoy freedom. - Judge Andrew Napolitano
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