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The following is the Declaration of The Revolution. It is our modification of the Declaration of Independence. You will find that a great deal of it is the same. The Founding Fathers were possessed of great wisdom. And that is why the Constitution, a document that seems to be fading in the hands of lesser men who would pretend to have dignity and honor enough to sit in the place of those great men is still, in our opinion, the greatest document of any government ever written. The foresight in the Declaration of Independence is equally timeless. The difference is only the source of the tyranny. The source that is now threatening this great nation now does not come from a tyrant across the sea, but instead from many tyrants within.
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 the pursuit of Happiness, and the right to keep and own that which they have acquired throught by the fruits of their own labor. — 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 States; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to replace their former representatives within this Government. The recent history and present state of the government of these United States of America has become one 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.
In every stage of these oppressions we seek to petition for redress in the most humble terms: Our hope is that our petitions will not be answered by further injury. Any government official, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be part of the government of a free people. We therefore as members of this organization do appeal to the supreme judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do in the name and by the will of the good people of these United States, solemnly publish and declare that this country should return to the state of liberty it was intended to maintain by it's founders. We seek to defend this nation's glory that a greedy and corrupt few would tarnish in pursuit of personal power at the expense of liberty. We And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other regardless of our individual political affiliations, our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor. Will you sign this Declaration of freedom from the corruption that has closed it's grasp around the lifeline of our liberty? |