Declaration of Independence

Our Founding Fathers of the United States of America realized that our fundamental rights were being usurped by a system that meant to enslave a people who had moved away from the Motherland for financial and religious Freedom and Independence…

Our Founding Fathers of the United States of America realized that our fundamental rights were being usurped by a system that meant to enslave a people who had moved away from the Motherland for financial and religious Freedom and Independence for All.

Preface

After a long period of suffering for an end that resulted in the Declaration of Independence being drafted in secret by the Original 13 states of the Americas and then served to the King of Great Britain.  This was precipitated by a number of taxes that the British enacted to pay for their war efforts with the French.  It was said that the French and British wars over the land in the Americas had costed Great Britain billions of dollars.

1764: Sugar Act was aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies increasing Great Britain’s revenues.  This represented taxation without representation and was considered grossly unfair.

1765: Stamp Act was an imposed direct tax on the American colonies that required that printed materials be produced on stamped paper produced in London, The printed materials included legal documents, magazines, playing cards, newspapers, and other types of paper, which had to be paid in British currency.

1766: Declaratory Act was enacted to state that the Parliament’s authority was the same in America as in Britain and asserted Parliament’s authority to pass laws that were binding on the American colonies.

1767: Townshend Acts placed new taxes and took away freedoms such as new taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea.

1773: Tea Act granted a monopoly to a Tea Company allowing the company the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies without first landing it in England, and to commission agents who would have the sole right to sell tea in the colonies. This Act meant that the colonies had to purchase the tea solely from Great Britain’s agents.

1774: Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts) was made up of several different Acts.

Boston Port Act
It closed the port of Boston until the colonists paid for the destroyed tea and the king was satisfied that order had been restored.

The Massachusetts Act
It unilaterally took away Massachusetts’ charter and brought it under control of the British government. Under the terms of the Government Act, almost all positions in the colonial government were to be appointed by the governor, Parliament, or king. The act also severely limited town meetings in Massachusetts to one per year, unless the Governor called for one.

Administration of Justice Act
Allowed the Royal governor to order trials of accused royal officials to take place in Great Britain or elsewhere within the Empire if he decided that the defendant could not get a fair trial in Massachusetts. George Washington believed it allowed the British officials to harass Americans and then escape justice.

Quartering Act
Created a more effective method of housing British troops in America.

“The Die is Cast… it seems to Me the Sword is now our only, yet dreadful alternative!”  ~ Abigail Adams wife of John Adams

America and the rest of the world are going through a similar time where we must look at history as a crystal ball that tells us what could occur if we are not vigilant and watching our Personal rights, freedom and independence to BE, DO or HAVE, whatever pleases us as long as it is moral, ethical, and doesn’t remove the property or rights of another person.

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.

 

“Let us Remember the Declaration of Independence!”

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.

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.

In God We Trust!

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