The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America...

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The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America...

...is the governed people's most important contract; —but we're taught to forget about it. After all; lawyers, politicians, professors, and "experts" tell us; "It is just there to remind us that we were once under British Rule; so: What do we need with that old dead paper".


Below, is the full transcript of The Declaration.


In Congress, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the united States of America

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 harrass 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 benefits 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 Brittish 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.

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