As time passes, it becomes necessary for the majority to demand the redistribution of power which has, for some time, been taken from the many and given to the few. At that time, it is only right that they demand the former station to which the Laws of this Nation, as created by its Founders, entitle them. A measure of respect to all requires that they clarify the causes and reasons which require the action.
We, the People, hold these truths to be self-evident:
Cautiousness will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for unimportant and short-sighted causes. History has shown that the People are more disposed to suffer, while the Governments abuses are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Governments to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses, pursuing invariably the same goal, reveal a design to submit the People under absolute Despotism; it is the right of the People, and their duty, to throw off those shackles, and to provide new guards for their future security.
This has been the patient suffering of the people of the United States. Now, the necessity has been created which forces them to alter their current Government. The history of the present Oligarchy and their government puppets is a history of repeated injuries, all having the direct goal to establish an absolute Tyranny over the People. To prove this, let facts be submitted to all:
In every stage of this oppression, We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms. We have exercised those rights guaranteed to us by Law. Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.
Leaders, whose character is marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, are unfit to be the representatives of a free people.
Nor have we neglected in drawing the attentions of our fellow citizens. We have warned them, from time to time, of attempts to extend an unwarrantable control and domination over us. We have reminded them of their rights, as laid out by our Founders. We have demonstrated the repeated abused by the Legislatures and their actors. We have appealed to our common goals, and we have begged them by the ties of our common history, to disavow these actions which would inevitably interrupt our connections. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of equity. We must, out of necessity, take the required actions; and hold them as we hold the rest of mankind: Enemies in War and in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the American Citizens, appealing to the common sense of the majority for the righteousness of our intentions; do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of this Nation, solemnly publish and declare that the power of this Nation shall be returned to the People from which is derives, that we are Absolved from the illegal usurpation of power.
That by this Declaration, we shall take such action as may be necessary to accomplish this goal.
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Law and History, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
We, the People, hold these truths to be self-evident:
- All people are created equal. Their mere existence provides them with certain undeniable Rights; among these, but not only these, are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness;
- To secure these undeniable Rights against threats, foreign and domestic; Governments are created by the People. Their just and limited powers derive from the consent of the People governed by them;
- Whenever any form of Government, created by the People, becomes destructive of the purposes for which it is created; it is the Right and Duty of those People to alter or to abolish it. They must then create a new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its authority in such form, as to secure those undeniable Rights.
Cautiousness will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for unimportant and short-sighted causes. History has shown that the People are more disposed to suffer, while the Governments abuses are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Governments to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses, pursuing invariably the same goal, reveal a design to submit the People under absolute Despotism; it is the right of the People, and their duty, to throw off those shackles, and to provide new guards for their future security.
This has been the patient suffering of the people of the United States. Now, the necessity has been created which forces them to alter their current Government. The history of the present Oligarchy and their government puppets is a history of repeated injuries, all having the direct goal to establish an absolute Tyranny over the People. To prove this, let facts be submitted to all:
- The Elected Officials, controlled by the Oligarchs, are at this time organizing large Armies of police and National Guard to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the heads of a civilized nation.
- The Elected Officials have altered fundamentally the Forms of our Governments.
- The Elected Officials have abolished our most valuable and protective Laws.
- The Legislatures, controlled by the Oligarchs, have refused their Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the good of the Public.
- The Oligarchs have forbidden their elected officials to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance; unless their passage can be suspended until the assent of the Oligarchs can be obtained. Once passage has been suspended, the Legislatures have utterly neglected to attend to them.
- The Legislatures have obstructed the administration of Justice by refusing to assent to appointments for establishing a working Judiciary.
- The Elected Officials have erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent swarms of Officers to harass our people and tax them into poverty.
- The Elected Officials have kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of the People.
- The Elected Officials have acted to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Authority.
- The Elected Officials have continued large and unpopular wars on foreign soil, utilizing bodies of armed troops taken from their positions at home.
- The Elected Officials have incited domestic insurrections amongst us, and have endeavored to bring on the citizens of our Nation, at home and abroad, merciless terrorists whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions
- The Elected Officials have established ‘Free Trade’ with all parts of the world, causing the removal of millions of jobs and billions in capital.
- The Elected Officials have imposed Taxes on the majority of the citizens while removing taxes from the Oligarchs and their businesses:
- The Elected Officials, controlled by the Oligarchs, have plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, raped our natural resources, and destroyed the lives of our people.
In every stage of this oppression, We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms. We have exercised those rights guaranteed to us by Law. Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.
Leaders, whose character is marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, are unfit to be the representatives of a free people.
Nor have we neglected in drawing the attentions of our fellow citizens. We have warned them, from time to time, of attempts to extend an unwarrantable control and domination over us. We have reminded them of their rights, as laid out by our Founders. We have demonstrated the repeated abused by the Legislatures and their actors. We have appealed to our common goals, and we have begged them by the ties of our common history, to disavow these actions which would inevitably interrupt our connections. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of equity. We must, out of necessity, take the required actions; and hold them as we hold the rest of mankind: Enemies in War and in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the American Citizens, appealing to the common sense of the majority for the righteousness of our intentions; do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of this Nation, solemnly publish and declare that the power of this Nation shall be returned to the People from which is derives, that we are Absolved from the illegal usurpation of power.
That by this Declaration, we shall take such action as may be necessary to accomplish this goal.
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Law and History, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.