Declaration of Independence:

[yota691]

Declaration of Independence: A Transcription

Note: The following text is a transcription of the Stone Engraving of the parchment Declaration of Independence (the document on display in the Rotunda at the National Archives Museum.) The spelling and punctuation reflects the original.

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In Congress, July 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen 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.

[Synopsis]

I encourage readers to look at the twenty-seven (27) grievances noted in the Declaration Of Independence above.

 

Please consider how the Democrats are imposing these twenty-seven (27) grievances on We The People in modern forms.

 

For example, fourteen (14) above:

 

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

 

So, what about ALL the internet monitoring AND personal data collection???!!!

[Shabibilicious]

The Declaration of Independence is a powerful document.....also a big reason why slave owners of the day didn't want their "property" to learn how to read.

 

GO RV, then BV

[Shelley]

1 minute ago, Shabibilicious said:

The Declaration of Independence is a powerful document.....also a big reason why slave owners of the day didn't want their "property" to learn how to read.

 

GO RV, then BV

Thank God the Republican Party FREED THEM !!!

[Shabibilicious]

1 minute ago, Shelley said:

Thank God the Republican Party FREED THEM !!!

 

Sure enough, now if the GOP would just agree to do away with all of the remaining confederate garbage....put it in a museum where it belongs.

 

GO RV, then BV

[Shelley]

35 minutes ago, Shabibilicious said:

 

Sure enough, now if the GOP would just agree to do away with all of the remaining confederate garbage....put it in a museum where it belongs.

 

GO RV, then BV

So woke of you 

[nstoolman1]

I think it is time WE the PEOPLE give the Declaration of independence 2 to the Dems in Washington. 

[Shabibilicious]

I'm guessing from the negs, some folks are fine with the slaves of yesteryear not knowing how to read.  

 

GO RV, then BV

[Shabibilicious]

38 minutes ago, Shelley said:

So woke of you 

 

I definitely try and live in the now....not 250 years ago.

 

GO RV, then BV

[DesertEagle]

Whats better a museum or a cage?

 

You know the cages Obama built and used, the same ones Lunchbucket Joe and Kameltoe are using now?

🤷🏿‍♂️✊

[coorslite21]

2 hours ago, Shabibilicious said:

The Declaration of Independence is a powerful document.....also a big reason why slave owners of the day didn't want their "property" to learn how to read.

 

GO RV, then BV

Do you support reparations?

[Shabibilicious]

59 minutes ago, coorslite21 said:

Do you support system" rel="">support reparations?

 

I DO NOT support reparations.....I'd settle for fair voting regulations for all Americans.....To me, the best way to make sure every American has an equal voice.

 

GO RV, then BV

[Sage449]

Democrats.

Democrats were the slave holders at nearly 99%.

Democrat slave owners, using the Confederacy to start the Civil War, by convincing their non-slave owning neighbors to fight to preserve slavery by promulgating they one color or origin of people were sub-human.

Democrats heavily opposed reconstruction after the Confederacy fell.

Democrats continue to push black population control by eugenic abortion, responsible for killing at least 19 million blacks babies since 1973.

Democrats started the KKK once the Confederacy fell as the violent enforcement wing of the Democrat party. They suppressed black voting and any black success at all through fear and violence.

Democrats imposed Jim Crow and segregation laws throughout the south. The Democrats continue to push segregation, with a post-modernist re-branding “identity politics” or “intersectionality”.

A Democrat led Supreme Court voted to uphold Dread Scott 7–2 (7 Dems to 2 Repubs)

Democrats favorite president F D Roosevelt, New Deal National Recovery Act excluded blacks from participating being driven by another Democrat favorite institution, the labor union.

Democrats excluded blacks from participating in social security. It wasn’t until 1954 when there was a Republican President and Congress that blacks were admitted into the social security program.

Democrats destroyed the family with the LB Johnson program Federal subsidies for mothers of dependent children and urban housing plan. To qualify for public housing fathers had to leave their families to another state so their wife and children could get housing. Pretty soon it became more profitable to have unwed women to have children allowing more federal benefits to the mothers. Democrat Darlings or social workers would go to public housing after sundown and make sure fathers hadn’t snuck back in to be with their wife and children. If they had the family would be kicked out.

Democrats have been propagating this lie that because of ones origins or appearance one group of people is better than another. The neo-confederacy now tells us that there is “white privilege”. Frankly if you believe in white privilege you believe in black inferiority.

[nstoolman1]

4 hours ago, Shabibilicious said:

 

I DO NOT support system" rel="">support reparations.....I'd settle for fair voting regulations for all Americans.....To me, the best way to make sure every American has an equal voice.

 

GO RV, then BV

There is. It is called voter ID.

You need an ID for everything.

[Shabibilicious]

14 hours ago, nstoolman1 said:

There is. It is called voter ID.

You need an ID for everything.

 

Absolutely, ID is essential in my book.....but so is easy access to efficient polling stations.

 

GO RV, then BV

[nstoolman1]

2 hours ago, Shabibilicious said:

 

Absolutely, ID is essential in my book.....but so is easy access to efficient polling stations.

 

GO RV, then BV

 

People don't seem to have a problem with getting to the grocery store, Dr's office, hospitals, DMV, SSA office, liquor stores, and churches and pharmacies. All require Drivers licenses or I.d cards. 

I don't see where access is a problem. 

[Shabibilicious]

3 minutes ago, nstoolman1 said:

 

People don't seem to have a problem with getting to the grocery store, Dr's office, hospitals, DMV, SSA office, liquor stores, and churches and pharmacies. All require Drivers licenses or I.d cards. 

I don't see where access is a problem. 

 

I'm simply saying if polling locations in the same proximity to all those things you mentioned above are suddenly closed and the voter is now required to travel halfway across the county to a polling station, that is wrong....Voting should require valid I.D....not a 2 or 3 hour round trip.

 

GO RV, then BV

[nstoolman1]

16 minutes ago, Shabibilicious said:

 

I'm simply saying if polling locations in the same proximity to all those things you mentioned above are suddenly closed and the voter is now required to travel halfway across the county to a polling station, that is wrong....Voting should require valid I.D....not a 2 or 3 hour round trip.

 

GO RV, then BV

I am not aware of any polling place that would be placed so far away you need to travel that long to get there. 

Especially in the big cities. 

There is a legitimate reason for requested mail in ballots(absentee). While in Ca I did it all the time. It needs to be requested. None of this massive mail out ballots. There is no control when that happens. Ripe for fraud. 

 

 

[Shelley]

1 hour ago, Shabibilicious said:

 

I'm simply saying if polling locations in the same proximity to all those things you mentioned above are suddenly closed and the voter is now required to travel halfway across the county to a polling station, that is wrong....Voting should require valid I.D....not a 2 or 3 hour round trip.

 

GO RV, then BV

Then I guess we have to hope that Pelosi doesn’t shut polling stations down but maybe add some 

[Shabibilicious]

1 minute ago, Shelley said:

Then I guess we have to hope that Pelosi doesn’t shut polling stations down but maybe add some 

 

Fair polling station locations should be left up to the individual states.....with no interference from the federal government, or any other state's government/AG.  As always, just my opinion.

 

GO RV, then BV

[Shelley]

8 minutes ago, Shabibilicious said:

 

Fair polling station locations should be left up to the individual states.....with no interference from the federal government, or any other state's government/AG.  As always, just my opinion.

 

GO RV, then BV

All I’m saying is Pelosi has been all up in mail in ballots ... not absentee ballots which are legitimate ballots 

just not wanting random mail in ballots by the millions 

[coorslite21]

2 hours ago, Shelley said:

All I’m saying is Pelosi has been all up in mail in ballots ... not absentee ballots which are legitimate ballots 

just not wanting random mail in ballots by the millions 

 

HR 1... that was approved by the House this week was heavy on the mail in ballots....along with many other items that place the thumb on the scale....

 

https://www.heritage.org/election-integrity/heritage-explains-if-hr-1-passes

 

 

[Shelley]

45 minutes ago, coorslite21 said:

 

HR 1... that was approved by the House this week was heavy on the mail in ballots....along with many other items that place the thumb on the scale....

 

https://www.heritage.org/election-integrity/heritage-explains-if-hr-1-passes

 

 

Not one Republican is voting for it , from what I saw on the news.

the nerve to call this a rescue package when only 9% is related to COVID 91% to special interests ... it’s crazy the things they want to get away with 

[bigwave]

On 3/4/2021 at 6:45 AM, Shabibilicious said:

The Declaration of Independence is a powerful document.....also a big reason why slave owners of the day didn't want their "property" to learn how to read.

o said it was an "old piece of paper that has little significance in a modern society."

[Shabibilicious]

On 3/5/2021 at 5:03 PM, bigwave said:

o said it was an "old piece of paper that has little significance in a modern society."

 

If "o" actually said that, I would have to disagree with him.....It's a powerful document....It's just a shame they obviously didn't really mean the "all men are created equal" part when it was originally penned.    

 

GO RV, then BV