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.
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It's been written that the most intense debating among the Second Continental Congress concerning the final The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America product to be presented to the world occurred over the following Thomas Jefferson-penned paragraph: He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian King of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where Men should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he has obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed again the Liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another. Whether the most strenuous objections to the paragraph came from delegates from the pro-slavery States of South Carolina and Georgia, or from northern State delegates who represented many directly involved commercially in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, or from still-loyal delegates to the King & Parliament is perpetually debatable, the paragraph was voted by the Second Continental Congress to be entirely deleted from what we now call the Declaration of Independence. So, so sad, because it would take another eighty-nine and a half years of American anti-slavery struggle, including maybe a million American lives sacrificed in "civil war" over that struggle, before America was finally able to totally eradicate the evil of human slavery from its shores. 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. Thomas Jefferson Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! Patrick Henry If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, — go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen! Samuel Adams 241 years ago today, Second Continental Congress convened, after being proposed on June 7, 1776, The Lee Resolution was passed: Resolved 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. Two days later, on the 4th of July, 1776, Congress would approve The unanimous Declaration of the united States of America to be announced to the world as America's reasons why it had just proclaimed itself a new nation. Happy Birthday, America! Today's 44th annual March for Life in the nation's capitol will go a long way in affecting whether the Trump/Pence ticket gets a second term in 2020. Mr. Pence will be the first Vice President to ever address marchers (no President ever has; shame, shame on you Mr. Trump), and the first woman to ever direct a victorious US presidential campaign - Kelleyanne Conway - will also speak. With an allegedly pro-life President, an allegedly pro-life majority in Congress, and an alleged opportunity to appoint a pro-life Justice to the Supreme Court, the Republican Party - led by President Trump - has no legitimate excuse this time to not take its very best swing to date at knocking the block off of Roe v. Wade. If they don't, if they pass-up this golden opportunity to actually walk like so many love to politically talk, then they will begin losing the elected power they currently are blessed with beginning in the next election, and their failure will result in Trump/Pence having absolutely no chance in hades of being reelected. Time in this nation has come for the socialist chaff to be separated from the patriotic wheat. The inalienable right to life, endowed to all human beings by the Creator, is a declared American republican political principle, and if those who were specifically elected to defend and protect that inalienable right don't, then they must be discarded as so much chaff, too. 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. Just as the Trump inauguration gave reverent, record-setting glory to God (six prayers in total: three invocations and three benedictions), so too will his next four years in Office bring forth even more righteously-rising opposition to the cold-blooded, intentional killing of the most innocent and vulnerable human beings among us. And a significant surge of opposition against that murder of convenience is arising from within the ranks of American feminism itself:
Views on Abortion Strain Calls for Unity at Women’s March on Washington As the revolutionary political document – upon which America's very civic existence is declared – lays out for all eternity to read, it is the Creator who endows mankind with certain inalienable rights, that first listed among them is "life", and that government is instituted among men to specifically secure those rights: not debate them, no power to amend them, but to "secure" them with all the omnipotent power the Constitution specifically charges the uniquely American, republican form of federal government with. And, of course, as The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America also purposely adds, when any government becomes destructive to those inalienable rights – instead of defending them with all the omnipotent power the Constitution specifically empowers it with to do so – that government no longer enjoys any right itself to exist. President Trump, without boasting of intent, (walking instead of just talking) is quietly leading America back to its revolutionary political root. His own declaration's great effectiveness during his inaugural speech Friday of returning a government gone socialist back to the People is easily rated simply from the widespread "populist" revulsion to it glaringly displayed immediately after and ever since by the mainstream socialist media and press. Creator > the People > government is America's revolutionary political gift to the world, and Donald J. Trump, in his very first words to the world as President of the United States of America, reestablished the proper role of America's republican form of empowered government, instantly reversing over a century of socialism's unconstitutional bastardization of government > the People in, literally, one fell swoop. With the growing number of feminists who find abortion to be the outright murder of God-given life it naturally is, President Trump will find his way of leading the overturn of the unconstitutional, socialist government sanctioning of such murder that much easier. Having honored the Creator as was done during his inauguration, having reestablished the People to their American revolutionary political role, now President Trump must cement his own constitutional political revolution by fully and precisely putting American government back in its constitutional place of securing the inalienable right to life, instead of unconstitutionally acting as socialism's agent of outright murder. Having boldly and gloriously trod back this revolutionary far, the new American President must take this final inalienable step, or his entire Presidency is doomed to fail as just another charade against the despicably deadly menace of socialism itself. |
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