How many would risk their political careers, let alone their lives, to affirm words like these:
Lives, fortune, and sacred honor were not just words. The signers of the declaration could have lost all three.
We find ourselves faced with a government that keeps growing, keeps getting more expensive, more intrusive, less conforming to the will of the people. In response we divide ourselves into "liberal" and "conservative" camps, with each one thinking we have the answers. But, the fact is that the problem of government can't be defined on the ends of a political spectrum. Both ends are in favor of different kinds of authoritarian ideals, and against a government that is instituted to protect our inalienable rights.
The difference in 1776 was that the government was by a foreign power, while today it is home grown.
Is it any less destructive of the ends of protecting our rights than it was under King George? Is it time to do some abolishing, or at least some altering?
It's high time that we, the people stood up and took control.
Your thoughts?
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,
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.
Lives, fortune, and sacred honor were not just words. The signers of the declaration could have lost all three.
We find ourselves faced with a government that keeps growing, keeps getting more expensive, more intrusive, less conforming to the will of the people. In response we divide ourselves into "liberal" and "conservative" camps, with each one thinking we have the answers. But, the fact is that the problem of government can't be defined on the ends of a political spectrum. Both ends are in favor of different kinds of authoritarian ideals, and against a government that is instituted to protect our inalienable rights.
The difference in 1776 was that the government was by a foreign power, while today it is home grown.
Is it any less destructive of the ends of protecting our rights than it was under King George? Is it time to do some abolishing, or at least some altering?
It's high time that we, the people stood up and took control.
Your thoughts?