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The Declaration of Independence
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The unanimous declaration of the thirteen United States
of America, in Congress, July 4, I776.
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The Oregon Patriot Party presents this side by side reference
to the plain meanings within this document which are ever increasingly being
ignored by our government. Words and their meanings have been presented
as well as factual references and insights.
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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.
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The document begins by acknowledging there will be times
when it will be necessary for a people to break away from a form of government.
To assume the powers of independent nations as "States" and people. To become
and be respected as equal nations as "States" - See 37 and 39 Grievances
Below. That it is a natural succession entitled to them by the laws
of nature and of God. That with respect to views and opinions of all mankind
they believe it decent and a self imposed requirement that they present
the reasons for which they feel it necessary to separate from their home
country.
The Right to Separate.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident:
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truths
1. Conformity to fact or actuality.
2. A statement proven to be or accepted as true.
self-evident
1. Requiring no proof or explanation.
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That all men are created equal; that they are endowed
by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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certain:
1. Definite; fixed.
2. Sure to come or happen; inevitable.
3. Established beyond doubt or question; indisputable.
inalienable:
1. That cannot be transferred to another or others.
right:
1. Conforming with or conformable to justice, law, or . morality.
2. In accordance with fact, reason, or truth; correct.
among these:
Meaning that there are more inalienable rights than are being immediately
mentioned.
The opposite meanings of those 40 Grievances presented in this document
which define what freedom is not, are also inalienable rights.
These Grievances are listed further below;
Later, the Bill of Rights outlined more of these inalienable rights. (The
Bill of Rights are derived from early individual rights established in England
but expanded to true and greater defined absolute rights in America).
Life:
To live where and how one wants to live so long as it does not physically
injure another person.
Liberty:
1.
a. The condition of being free from restriction or control.
b. The right and power to act, believe, or express oneself in a manner
of one's own choosing.
c. The condition of being physically and legally free from confinement,
servitude, or forced labor.
2. Freedom from unjust or undue governmental control.
3. A right and power to engage in certain actions without control or interference.
pursuit:
a. The act or an instance of chasing or pursuing.
b. The act of striving.
c. An activity, such as a vocation or hobby, engaged in regularly.
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That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted
among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed;
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Our Government is created to protect these rights.
That any power a government has is there only with the consent of the people.
This does not give the people or the government the power to change or
abolish inalienable rights which cannot be given away, taken away, sold
or transferred.
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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 a 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.
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Should the government try to alter or destroy any inalienable
rights, it is the right of the people,
any
one or number of people *,
to alter or abolish that government and create a new government that respects
those inalienable rights;
Rights which make a government ask consent of the governed for which this
right of altercation or abolishment is granted. They are describing here
why they are separating and setting the stage for that what it is that will
be most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
alter
1. To change or make different; modify.
abolish
1. To do away with; annul.
2. To destroy completely.
* Note that only 38 Patriot villagers ran out and faced the largest government
in the world at that time; facing 700 British Regulars across Lexington
Bridge.
Of the 38, 8 died and 9 were wounded.
The British under direction of General Gage then went on to destroy citizens
militia supplies at Concord.
Neither the British Government at that time nor our own Federal government
likes armed civilians equal to the strength of the standing army. Yet, this
is the reason for the 12th Grievance which defines the 2nd Amendment - see
below.
14 of Gages men were lost in the following skirmishes after the supplies
were destroyed at Concord.
Farmers everywhere though outnumbered took to their guns and chased after
the British who were reinforced by 1200 more men and field pieces (cannon)
and the battle intensified until the British found safe haven in Charlestown.
The British suffering 247 casualties to the Colonists 88.
True Patriotism is not defined in numbers but in those who is willing and
will to defend Certain, Inalienable, Rights.
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Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established
should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all
experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils
are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which
they are accustomed.
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Much consideration should be taken before changing a government
that has been in existence for a long time; and never changed for causes
that are unimportant or that will change easily with time.
History has shown that man is willing to be beat down a long time with
regulations and abusive laws of a government before they get mad enough
to to take steps to change it; or courage enough to fight and overthrow
it. This is because they become accustomed to the misuse, rendering themselves
lazy, unfocussed and passive.
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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
suffering of these colonies, and such is now the necessity which constrains
them to alter their former systems of government
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However, when after many abuses have been suffered which
indicates that such a government will continue to misuse its powers and
ignore those inalienable rights and rule with oppressive power.
It is each individual's or group of individuals RIGHT and DUTY to over
throw that government and to create safeguards to protect themselves from
the same misuse occurring in the future.
This includes the Federal Government and Constitution if it becomes degraded
to a point that is contrary to the Declaration of Independence which is
the lone document that defines freedom.The origionating founders letters
providing further the intent.
Thousands died for this document alone; no one died to ratify the Constitution.
Also, the Constitution would have never been ratified without the Bill of
Rights that are the ``Among These" defined in the Declaration of Independence
defining ``Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
usurp
(usurpations):
1. To seize and hold (the power or rights of another, for example) by force
and without legal authority.
2. To take over or occupy without right.
3. To seize another's place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
evinces:
To show or demonstrate clearly; manifest.
despot
or despotism:
1.
A ruler with absolute power.
2. A person or government who wields power oppressively,
3. A tyrant or those collectively with unlimited power or authority.
4. Any Tyrannical control.
Our countries reasons for seeking independence.
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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.
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*** Although the following complaints by the Colonies were
aimed toward the king of England, you can see that some of the problems
they faced then are not so unlike the problems we are facing right now with
an oppressive federal government.
Remember, it doesn't matter what a controlling oppressing power is; as
it can be a king, a dictator, a bureaucracy, a socialist structure, a democracy,
a republic; It means very clearly "any government", any
form of oppressive power.
Foreign policy, immigration and foreign armed forces not so unlike the
U.N. (united nations), Federal armed forces and civil militias are also
easily related in the Grievances and described clearly.
*** Below we have offered correlation's between what was then a reason
to become independent and present day problems needed to be corrected. We
have numbered the reasons for ease of reference.
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1.) 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.
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THE 40 GRIEVANCES
1.) Here again our founding fathers are proposing to set
down laws that will be wholesome and necessary for the public good.
wholesome:
1.
Conducive to sound health or well-being; salutary.
2. Promoting mental, moral, or social
health.
3. Enjoying or marked by physical, mental, or moral soundness; healthy.
necessary:
1.
Absolutely essential.
2. Needed to achieve a certain result or effect; requisite.
3.a. Unavoidably determined by prior conditions or circumstances; inevitable.
b. Logically inevitable.
4. Required by obligation, compulsion, or convention 5. Something indispensable.
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2.) 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.
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2.) Here we have been given an example of local governments
whose serious immediate needs are being ignored or suspended by a higher
oppressive power until that power gives its approval.
States Rights and Local Rights to Pass Local Laws are an Inalienable Right.
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3.) 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.
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3.) Here the king try's to keep any opposition to his rule
by only allowing people into its domain if they give up their right to have
representation in the legislature or voice in the law making process.
Zoning is another way of refusing accommodation of large districts of people
and is completely against the rights of the people who have a right to build
and live where they wish.
Another reason that our Rights cannot be given up or even given or traded
away!
inestimable:
1. Impossible to estimate or compute.
2. Of immeasurable value or worth; invaluable.
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4.) He has called together legislative bodies, at places
unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the repository of their public
records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his
measures.
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4.) The reason for have law libraries and places of records
in every major city.
However, there are federal records for federal agencies that are almost
impossible to access freely or obtain cost effectively: the Bureau of Land
Management among others who's records you have to ask them to get for you
so you must know exactly what you are looking for; and are unable to research
all copies of their records freely. An agency that needs to be dissolved anyway
and lands given to each states local county control.
BLM also has their own courts in Virginia that determine the outcome of
their own administrative law.
State and Federal "Administrative law" now causes people to travel hundreds
of miles for "pretrial hearings" long before the actual trial and far from
the area of where the issues are occurring, thus fatiguing those that need
to defend themselves or their position and creating great difficulty to
a proceeding that will be given great weight at a eventual trial.
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5.) He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly for
opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
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5.) Here the king try's to keep people from organizing
and representing themselves against him for his actions against the peoples
rights by using force.
This is another reason why civilians in this country have a right to keep
and bear arms and why the civilian army needs to always be of greater strength
than the standing army. (continue reading for this absolute fact and prescription
written as a grievance the 12th Grievance in the Declaration of Independence)
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6.) 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 meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion
from without and convulsions within.
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6.) Basically, after such dissolving of representatives,
the king delays the election of others, meanwhile those powers or laws they
wish to have removed, changed or be protected from, return to take what
they want from them (convulsions from within); and kept from any representation
through the legislative process to receive adequate protection from their
enemies (invasion from without). The reason for the 12th Grievance and 2nd
Amendment.
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7.) He has endeavored to prevent the population of these
states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners;
refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising
the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
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7.) Here the king tries to keep people out of this country
and from entering the states by not granting naturalization and raising
the cost and creating costly and difficult procedures or conditions to obtain
land or properties.
This is an absolute statement denying the right of the king
to keep people from migrating to this country
It is also just one more reason why Zoning of land which restrict
the liberty of building and living where one wishes is unconscionable and
unconstitutional.
It is regulation that keeps jobs from this country, not immigration. Lift
all zoning and there would be no unemployment.
hither:
1.
To or toward this place.
2. —idiom.
hither and thither or hither and yon.
In or to many places; here and there.
Note: Building codes for publicly owned buildings and Emission controls
for companies whose pollution leaves its property into the public would not
be restricted from being laws regulating them.
This is an area of special consideration which will be addressed at length
later on in this web site where we discuss where Rights of one are not Rights
to encroach upon another.
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8.) He has obstructed the administration of justice by refusing
his assent to laws for establishing his judiciary powers.
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8.) Simply, the king refused to agree to anyone creating
laws that would establish any kind of guidelines or firm rules to his powers.
assent:
1. Agreement; concurrence.
2. Acquiescence; consent. (*** a word used later below)
3. To agree, as to a proposal; concur.
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9.) He has made judges dependent on his will alone for the
tenure of their offices and the amount and payment of their salaries.
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9.) Self explanatory.
He controlled all judges by controlling their salaries. Appointed judges
can face similar biases if they are appointed. However, if they are educated
in both law and the laws of freedom as presented by the founding fathers
in the Declaration of Independence, such biases should be very limited by
just reasoning.
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10.) He has erected a multitude of new offices and sent
hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
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10.) Here the king has created massive bureaucracy just
as we see in our country today.
Offices we do not need. Enforcing laws on us we don't need; And ``eating
out our substance", our hard earned money, to pay for their high salaries,
insurance, dental, doctor and retirement!
Then they have the gall to ask for fees for their services!
But for the armed forces, police and fire. All else is welfare, should
be paid accordingly and limited to four years service to the public.
They would then have that training to use toward work and position in the
private work place.
*** This is why we need to put a freeze on government employee hiring
and begin shifting jobs from nonessential government offices to essential
government offices as openings become available.
*** At the same time, declare Zoning, as it is in fact, unconstitutional.
This will open the way for private jobs through private enterprise.
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11.) He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies
without the consent of our legislatures.
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11.) This is not an issue in our country but for the lack
of local control over federal policing agencies by local legislature.
It does cement the fact that Federalism was hated by the original founders.
The "federalists" created, after freedom was won for free and independent
states, a condition that was sure to create the very same problematic issues
of a large central government they had just wrestled freedom from.
Only later was federalism ``debated" by a few who forgot what they fought
against to gain their freedom.
Legislatures were independent of the kings court and independent of
each state or area.
This (local control) desperately needed now, would reduce some public
tensions from unwarranted federal policing tactics which should be left
outside our country for socialists, communists and other enemies to a truely
defined free society based on these inalienable rights.
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12.) He has affected to render the military independent
of and superior to the civil power.
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12.) Here is a powerful statement of our Fore Fathers
that the civil power should be equal to or greater than the military powers.
Most importantly, it defines the difference of the two.
This can be no plainer.
Lets look at what these words mean.
civil:
1. Of, relating to, or befitting a citizen or citizens.
2. Of or relating to citizens and their interrelations with one another
or with the state.
3. Of ordinary citizens or ordinary community life as distinguished
from the military or the ecclesiastical.
4. Of or in accordance with organized society; civilized.
5. Sufficiently observing or befitting accepted social usage's; not rude.
6. Being in accordance with or denoting legally recognized divisions of
time.
7. Law. Relating to the rights of private individuals and legal proceedings
concerning these rights as distinguished from criminal, military, or international
regulations or proceedings.
Militia
- Civil Power:
1.
An army composed of ordinary citizens rather than professional soldiers.
(i.e. CIVIL POWER)
2. A military force that is not part of a regular army and is subject
to call for service in an emergency.
3. The whole body of physically fit civilians eligible by law for military
service. (not applicable as all service at the time was voluntary - one
should note that any just war will have many volunteers. Abraham Lincoln
was the fist to impose a draft and hundreds of people were hung in the streets
in protest. The fact is that slavery was the only thing that the south was
wrong in, the war was actually fought to assure northern industry could
not be regulated, out competed or restricted by southern states in commerce.
The Declaration of Independence guarantees Free and Independent States (37th
& 39th Grievances below). The war would have been won by the south had
not the draft be implemented. This is no glaring approval to federalism of
which dangers presented in the federalist papers are now coming true.)
Note: Because the national guard is controlled by the federal government
and paid as a reserve force it is not a civil power as defined or
practiced. It is an extension of the standing army.
military - Standing Army
1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of members of the armed forces.
2. Performed or supported by the armed forces.
3. Of or relating to war.
4. Of or relating to land forces.
5. Armed forces.
6. Members, especially officers, of an armed force.
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13.) He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction
foreign to our constitutions and unacknowledged by our laws,
giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:
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13.) Here the king has joined with others to place the colonists
under the jurisdiction of those he has conspired with.
This makes it very clear that no laws but our own shall govern our
country. And that States (colonies) rights they possessed not be subject
to far removed powers.
Laws imposed on the United States by any UN charters are unconstitutional
and directly in conflict with the Declaration of Independence.
The federal government by its relentless defiance of the founding documents
intent of this document which is a Engagement of the people
and allowance of financial gain as well as outside interventions with the
same corruption is now practicing this same pretended legislation.
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14.) For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us;
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14.) Self explanatory. Remember, these were British citizens
whose own government placed a standing army among the citizenry.
This was a reason to over throw their government. Think about this, then
read the 12th grievance again. This further defines the rights of individual
citizens to be in their right to keep and bear arms equal to and greater
than the standing army.
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15.) For protecting them by a mock trial from punishment
for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states;
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15.) The reason for crimes against civilians by government
or military personnel to be placed in local civil courts and tried by civilians.
Not military courts.
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16.) For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world;
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16.) Affirms free trade. Inside as well as outside the US.
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17.) For imposing taxes on us without our consent;
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17.) Meaning:
The Government cannot tax us unless we agree to be taxed.
``No taxation without representation". (Do not confuse representatives
- persons - with that which is representative of that which is purchased
with peoples consent.
Remember, the colonists had British "representatives" who made decisions
for them; this is what they fought against.
This is a inalienable right as it is one of the original ``Bill of Rights";
and cannot be changed.
The 16th amendment of the Constitution is in violation of the original
constitution and the 17th Grievance of the Declaration of Independence.
You cannot amend an inalienable right; and representation does not
mean a representative as an individual, it means representation of the need
by consent.
General funds are unconstitutional as they do not pertain
to a specific purpose which has been dedicated by the people themselves
by vote and individual consent.
This is why a general percentage tax derived from income,
property or sales is unconstitutional.
It makes it impossible to stop collecting when funds for a
particular need are satisfied; and creates a bureaucracy that expends more
money just to return over taxation back to the people.... If your ``representitives
decide to give you back your money; or throw it back into a ``general fund"
to spend when and where they want.
This last problem is what expands bureaucracies and dependencies
of people upon government money, and should be stopped for it is unconstitutional
and extremely damaging to freedom and the country..
(see: No Names No Numbers Tax)
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18.) For depriving us in many cases of the benefits of trial
by jury;
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18.) Self explanatory. (see constitution for jury of peers
encroachment) There are so many unconstitutional laws pertaining to private
property that courts have become clogged with petty infractions to laws
which should never have been laws in the first place. The biggest infraction
is one person telling another what he should or shouldn't do with his own
property.
Because of this clogging of unnecessary laws, the courts have began developing
ways for people to wave their right to a jury by trial to cut costs.
Administrative law has been developed to bypass laws that protect people.
Administrative Hearings before court proceedings force people to travel
burdensome miles from home prior to the final courts proceedings.
This practice is beginning to work itself into the entire legal system.
(i.e. small claims court, traffic violations etc.) This is a dangerous practice
which could be greatly alleviated by reducing petty laws and presenting
laws that address only real crimes and not perceived ones.
In a free country you cannot wave, sell or trade away rights. Rights are
certain and inalienable.
You cannot agree to arbitration, as you cannot freely give up your right
to a jury by trial which is an inalienable right.
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19.) For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended
offenses;
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19.) Self explanatory. Not an issue at this time. A danger
if UN charters impose laws on our country as well as other countries.
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20.) For abolishing the free system of English laws in a
neighboring 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;
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20.) Bureaucracies such as the Bureau of Land Management
(BLM) as well as other large federal bureaucracies present powers within
themselves. BLM now possesses armed rangers as well as legal enforcement
of their own laws.
They also have their own Hearings and Appeals court in Virginia that proceeds
all other courts pertaining to their laws and issues of property within
their jurisdiction.
Most recently this particular bureaucracy is being used as a major tool
to expand even greater control over Federal lands through so called environmental
protection causes.
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21.) For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable
laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments;
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21.) Self explanatory. Inalienable Rights... which are Laws,
our most valuable laws, are even now being abolished and altered. This is
Treason by any who involves themselves in enforcing laws that ignore, over
ride or water down inalienable rights.
Our present federal government is constantly altering fundamentally the
form of our government. They simply refuse to realize that freedom works.
They place this country and its true definition of freedoms in peril.
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22.) For suspending our own legislatures and declaring themselves
invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
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22.) A problem where Federal Government tries to impose
powers over State, and Federal and State over County jurisdictions.
Suspending our state legislatures occurred during the Civil War, and now
the federal government uses federally collected tax money to ``bribe" i.e.
``if you don't do what we want, you won't receive matching federal funds";
Another reason not to have taxes given without a particular reason, or
representative of exactly what it should be spent for, or without our individual
consent ";
In this way the federal government would have nothing by which to bribe
local governments.
Our present government is not the type of government the origionating founders
envisioned, as clearly defined in the 37th and 39th Grievances (below) and
in countless.
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23.) He has abdicated government here by declaring us out
of his protection and waging war against us.
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23.) Here the national government has relinquished the power
of the local governments and waged war against them. This happened in the
Civil War also by the Federal Government that refused to heed the founders
intent.
It is continuing now through the use of financial manipulation of corrupt
taxation to withhold moneys from states and counties whose is rightfully
theirs to use as they wish in the first place, that will not comply with
federal measures. A dangerous combination when international agreements cause
sway in our most valuable laws.
abdicate:
1.
To relinquish (power or responsibility) formally.
To relinquish formally a high office or responsibility.
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24.) He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt
our towns and destroyed the lives of our people.
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24.) Self explanatory.
Notice they did not call them "terrorists".
They later called them enemies and left it at that; `At war enemies in
peace friends'. We should learn by this.
Trying to sell a new definition of enemy such as `terrorism' is a ploy
to take more rights away from free citizens;
The only reason to use such terms is to step around laws which normally
restrict governments from invading the rights of its citizens.
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25.) He is at this time transporting large armies of
foreign mercenaries to complete the work of death, desolation, and tyranny
already begun, with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled
in the most barbarous ages and totally unworthy the head of a civilized
nation.
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25.) A reason to never allow foreign armies jurisdiction,
for any cause, over, or occupation within, our lands; namely at this time
the UN, property ownership of US lands by individuals not of US citizenship
(renewable leases that are revocable in time of war and subject to US interest
laws would be acceptable but absolutely no foreign or U.N or other country's
military bases)
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26.) He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive
upon 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;
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26.) No military should take up arms against its own people.
No man should be pressed into service.
A just war will find many volunteers.
If the purpose we went to war was to defend certain inalienable rights
and then to establish certain inalienable rights in another country we defeat,
there would be no reason for a draft which is against established certain
inalienable rights anyway.
The sad part of our present military actions, is that we in defense attack
and defeat a nation in retaliation, then instead of establishing true freedoms
there, we lift up "total democracy", or a mob rules or total socialism,
which in fact democracy is when it is without "certain inalienable rights"
as its foundation to limit its governments corruption;
We then proclaim the installed European type government that does
not recognize certain inalienable rights as some form of freedom.
Which it is not.
The people still left under subjugation of their government.
What stupidity.
The UN as it stands, can be used against its own people and countries practicing
inalienable rights if the "international community decides" and is the reason
it should be disarmed and merely a room where nations debate real problems
and for which each nation will act on their own sovereign interests.
This is also another reason for the citizenry to have equal or greater
arms than the standing army as is defined in the 12th grievance.
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27.) He has excited domestic insurrection amongst us, and
has endeavored 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.
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27.) Self explanatory. *Government should not sell
(promote) its worth, or need of their services to us, our services to them,
or to others sympathetic to that which insures their employment.
We have fallen into the same method of warfare due to modern warfare
weapons and tactics.
Again, notice we did not redefine an enemy by calling them terrorists.
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28.) In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned
for redress, in the most humble terms;
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28.) Self explanatory. We also present these to the Federal
Government.
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29.) our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated
injury.
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29.) Self explanatory.
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30.) 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.
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30.) Defines character as a very important factor in the
leadership of a free people.
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31.) Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British
brethren.
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31.) Self explanatory. Here many people just want to be
left alone by an imposing federal government of today which increasingly
places burdens on the people that it now extracts tax money from without
their consent;
The reason for the 17th Grievance.
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32.) We have warned them, from time to time, of attempts
by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.
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32.) The reason this web site is created.
To educate and indeed warn both local, state and federal governments that
they have been overstepping the laws that they have sworn to uphold;
So they can make the changes that is their right and duty to make; individually
or collectively.
That is: to throw out all laws and imposing regulations not aligned with
the Grievances and rights of the Declaration of Independence.
The excuse of just doing ones job, is no excuse to ignore ones duty
to his country.
If you know something to be adverse to the original Grievances, work to
remove it; which is your individual RIGHT and your DUTY.
***Also - Work to make the UN simply a room for which independent
countries can talk freely; nothing more; and having no separate military or
jurisdictive powers over other countries.
This will keep any foreign, and indeed unwarrantable jurisdiction away
from our free country.
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33.) We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration
and settlement here.
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33.) Self explanatory.
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34.) 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.
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34.) Self explanatory.
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35.) They, too. have been deaf to the voice of justice and
consanguinity.
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35.) Self explanatory.
consanguinity:
1. Of the same lineage or origin; having a common ancestor.
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36.) 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.
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36.) Self explanatory.
Establishes the right to separate from any form of government.
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37.) 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
the 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;
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37.) Self explanatory.
Supreme Judge of the World: God
Free
and Independent states. Are you deaf ???
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38.) 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;
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38.) Self explanatory.
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39.) 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.
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39.) Self explanatory.
Free
and Independent States. Are you deaf ???
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40.) 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.
(Click
here to See just what many of these men Sacrificed).
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40.) ...our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
This is an Engagement with and of the American people that subjugates the United
States Constitution as defined in the Constitution's structure;
Wherein it states clearly:
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Article VI of the Constitution of the United States:
All
Debts contracted and "Engagements entered into", "before the
Adoption" of this Constitution, shall
be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under
the Confederation.
This
Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof;
(in PURSUANCE THEREOF)
and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the
Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land;
and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the
Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwith-standing.
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the
several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both
of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or
Affirmation, to support this Constitution;
but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any
Office or public Trust under the United States. (They however relied upon God for its success. ie "Divine Providence" giving respect, and achknowlegement)
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What greater ENGAGEMENT is there of freedom, than the Declaration of Independence
that establishes freedom!
The Constitution which purpose is to limit the powers of government, not
to empower it, is subject to the Declaration of Independence and the letters
of the Originating Founding Fathers of 1776 that define the intent of this
written Engagement that is the founding document of true freedom.
It is the ONLY document for which those who fought for freedom died and
sacrificed for, there was no other.
George Washington read it to his troops before each battle so that there
was no question as to what they were sacrificing for.
Those who signed this document, and those who fought for this document
risked everything;
Many men did give up their lives and fortunes as they pledged for freedom.
To find out what became of the signers and just what many of these men Sacrificed
... Click here
Nowhere in history of the world or in the world today, is
there such a document that defends against subjugation of governments and
empowers the individual above any and all governments with certain inalienable
rights, placing any and all governments at their feet.
All other people are subjects to the governments of their own making.
Do not make the mistake of confusing true freedom defined by "certain,
inalienable rights" presented here as its foundation, with all those falsely
proclaimed "free nations" such as England who have no such foundation.
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Signed by order and in behalf of the Congress.
JOHN HANCOCK, President.
Attested, Charles Tomson, Secretary.
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New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartiett.
William Whipple.
Matthew Thornton.
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Massachusetts Bay:
Samuel Adams.
John Adams.
Robert Treat Paine.
Elbridge Gerry.
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Rhode Island, Etc.:
Stephen Hopkins.
William Ellery.
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Connecticut:
Roger Sherman.
Samuel Huntington.
William Williams.
Oliver Wolcott.
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New York:
William Floyd.
Philip Livingston.
Francis Lewis.
Lewis Morris.
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New Jersey:
Richard Stockton.
John Witherspoon.
Francis Hopkinson.
John Hart.
Abraham Clark.
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Delaware:
Caesar Rodney.
George Read.
Thomas McKean.
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