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[Kosh]

Think of the DoI as filing for divorce from England. It carries no legal weight - like the Bible.

Bad analogy with the same debunked far left propaganda and talking points from the racist far left Obama drone.

A committee of five had already drafted the formal declaration, to be ready when Congress voted on independence. The term "Declaration of Independence" is not used in the document itself.

However it is a Congressional Document.

Wow, you're stupid.

Apparently you are not aware that that "congressional" means the colonial Congressional Congress.......the Congress as we know it, the governing Congress as we know it didn't even exist for over another 10 years.

Another far left Obama drone and their showing how little they know about anything on this issue.

The Declaration of Independence is listed in the first volume of the U.S. Code under the heading Organic Laws of the United States. "Organic" is defined as "of, relating to, or constituting the law by which a government or organization exists." Note use of the word "law" in the definition. There are four laws known as the Organic Laws of the U.S. They are the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, and the Constitution. Further, the Supreme Court has held that the oath that elected officials take to defend the Constitution inherently implies all the Organic Law, which includes the Declaration. Further, any reading of the Declaration shows that it was very much a legal document, beginning with the phrase, "IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America," and closing with "We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled," etc.

Come on far left posters, show that you understand these things. Is there one far left poster out there that can do that?

 

[Kosh]

More far left propaganda to cover the fact that they will support the illegal acts of Obama.

Poor Kosh, 20,000 Yazidis freed, no US deaths. And no "illegal" actvities, best get USED to the USA being #1 AGAIN.

These are the same people who moaned and groaned and complained when OBL was finally taken down.

And the far left lies continue as they hide the fact that they support Obama in his illegal actions in Iraq.

 

[bodecea]

Bad analogy with the same debunked far left propaganda and talking points from the racist far left Obama drone.

A committee of five had already drafted the formal declaration, to be ready when Congress voted on independence. The term "Declaration of Independence" is not used in the document itself.

However it is a Congressional Document.

Wow, you're stupid.

Apparently you are not aware that that "congressional" means the colonial Congressional Congress.......the Congress as we know it, the governing Congress as we know it didn't even exist for over another 10 years.

Another far left Obama drone and their showing how little they know about anything on this issue.

The Declaration of Independence is listed in the first volume of the U.S. Code under the heading Organic Laws of the United States. "Organic" is defined as "of, relating to, or constituting the law by which a government or organization exists." Note use of the word "law" in the definition. There are four laws known as the Organic Laws of the U.S. They are the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, and the Constitution. Further, the Supreme Court has held that the oath that elected officials take to defend the Constitution inherently implies all the Organic Law, which includes the Declaration. Further, any reading of the Declaration shows that it was very much a legal document, beginning with the phrase, "IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America," and closing with "We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled," etc.

Come on far left posters, show that you understand these things. Is there one far left poster out there that can do that?

Thanks for continuing to prove your stupidity in this regard.

 

[EconChick]

Ahem, sparky, the Declaration of Independence is a FOUNDING document - but NOT a GOVERNING document. In other words - it ain't law.

Declaration of Independence Is Not Law

So you're saying we might as well wipe our asses with the Declaration of Independence since it's so worthless in your mind?

Just what does it mean to you?

The Declaration of Independence is just that...a Declaration...an Announcement. It is not a governing document, nor has an intelligent person ever thought it was.

Oh yeah, it's just an announcement....like the kind the principal would give about fire alarms over the microphone.

What a moron. Let me guess, you're a lawyer. Do you know how many brainwashed and indoctrinated lawyers and economists come out of overwhelmingly liberal undergrad and grad programs in this country??

You don't even know you don't know.

If you're not a lawyer, than I take it you learn from the internet. Yes, that's an object means of education (roll eyes).

 

[bodecea]

So you're saying we might as well wipe our asses with the Declaration of Independence since it's so worthless in your mind?

Just what does it mean to you?

The Declaration of Independence is just that...a Declaration...an Announcement. It is not a governing document, nor has an intelligent person ever thought it was.

Oh yeah, it's just an announcement....like the kind the principle would give about fire alarms over the microphone.

What a moron. Let me guess, you're a lawyer. Do you know how many brainwashed and indoctrinated lawyers and economists come out of overwhelmingly liberal undergrad and grad programs in this country??

You don't even know you don't know.

If you're not a lawyer, than I take it you learn from the internet. Yes, that's an object means of education (roll eyes).

So...you don't know what the word "Declaration" means. Color me surprised.

It wouldn't even surprise me to find out you don't even know what 2/3rds of the Declaration is all about.

 

[Kosh]

Wow, you're stupid.

Apparently you are not aware that that "congressional" means the colonial Congressional Congress.......the Congress as we know it, the governing Congress as we know it didn't even exist for over another 10 years.

Another far left Obama drone and their showing how little they know about anything on this issue.

The Declaration of Independence is listed in the first volume of the U.S. Code under the heading Organic Laws of the United States. "Organic" is defined as "of, relating to, or constituting the law by which a government or organization exists." Note use of the word "law" in the definition. There are four laws known as the Organic Laws of the U.S. They are the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, and the Constitution. Further, the Supreme Court has held that the oath that elected officials take to defend the Constitution inherently implies all the Organic Law, which includes the Declaration. Further, any reading of the Declaration shows that it was very much a legal document, beginning with the phrase, "IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America," and closing with "We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled," etc.

Come on far left posters, show that you understand these things. Is there one far left poster out there that can do that?

Thanks for continuing to prove your stupidity in this regard.

So in other words the far left can not prove they understand such things, they rely on talking points and propaganda not based in reality.

Are you going to condemn Obama for his illegal actions in Iraq?

 

[bodecea]

Another far left Obama drone and their showing how little they know about anything on this issue.

The Declaration of Independence is listed in the first volume of the U.S. Code under the heading Organic Laws of the United States. "Organic" is defined as "of, relating to, or constituting the law by which a government or organization exists." Note use of the word "law" in the definition. There are four laws known as the Organic Laws of the U.S. They are the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, and the Constitution. Further, the Supreme Court has held that the oath that elected officials take to defend the Constitution inherently implies all the Organic Law, which includes the Declaration. Further, any reading of the Declaration shows that it was very much a legal document, beginning with the phrase, "IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America," and closing with "We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled," etc.

Come on far left posters, show that you understand these things. Is there one far left poster out there that can do that?

Thanks for continuing to prove your stupidity in this regard.

So in other words the far left can not prove they understand such things, they rely on talking points and propaganda not based in reality.

Are you going to condemn Obama for his illegal actions in Iraq?

So...again, like you've been asked...what U.S. laws have been enacted with the Dec. of Ind. as a basis?

 

[bodecea]

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The Declaration of Independence: A Transcription

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.

The 56 signatures on the Declaration appear in the positions indicated:

Column 1
Georgia:
Button Gwinnett
Lyman Hall
George Walton

Column 2
North Carolina:
William Hooper
Joseph Hewes
John Penn
South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge
Thomas Heyward, Jr.
Thomas Lynch, Jr.
Arthur Middleton

Column 3
Massachusetts:
John Hancock
Maryland:
Samuel Chase
William Paca
Thomas Stone
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe
Richard Henry Lee
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Harrison
Thomas Nelson, Jr.
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Carter Braxton

Column 4
Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris
Benjamin Rush
Benjamin Franklin
John Morton
George Clymer
James Smith
George Taylor
James Wilson
George Ross
Delaware:
Caesar Rodney
George Read
Thomas McKean

Column 5
New York:
William Floyd
Philip Livingston
Francis Lewis
Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
Richard Stockton
John Witherspoon
Francis Hopkinson
John Hart
Abraham Clark

Column 6
New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett
William Whipple
Massachusetts:
Samuel Adams
John Adams
Robert Treat Paine
Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins
William Ellery
Connecticut:
Roger Sherman
Samuel Huntington
William Williams
Oliver Wolcott
New Hampshire:
Matthew Thornton

Where's the enforceble law in that?

 

[Kosh]

Thanks for continuing to prove your stupidity in this regard.

So in other words the far left can not prove they understand such things, they rely on talking points and propaganda not based in reality.

Are you going to condemn Obama for his illegal actions in Iraq?

So...again, like you've been asked...what U.S. laws have been enacted with the Dec. of Ind. as a basis?

It is in my comments already, I know reading is not a far left Obama drone strong point.

Are you going to condemn Obama for his illegal actions in Iraq?

 

[Kosh]

Printer-Friendly Version
The Declaration of Independence: A Transcription

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.

The 56 signatures on the Declaration appear in the positions indicated:

Column 1
Georgia:
Button Gwinnett
Lyman Hall
George Walton

Column 2
North Carolina:
William Hooper
Joseph Hewes
John Penn
South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge
Thomas Heyward, Jr.
Thomas Lynch, Jr.
Arthur Middleton

Column 3
Massachusetts:
John Hancock
Maryland:
Samuel Chase
William Paca
Thomas Stone
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe
Richard Henry Lee
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Harrison
Thomas Nelson, Jr.
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Carter Braxton

Column 4
Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris
Benjamin Rush
Benjamin Franklin
John Morton
George Clymer
James Smith
George Taylor
James Wilson
George Ross
Delaware:
Caesar Rodney
George Read
Thomas McKean

Column 5
New York:
William Floyd
Philip Livingston
Francis Lewis
Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
Richard Stockton
John Witherspoon
Francis Hopkinson
John Hart
Abraham Clark

Column 6
New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett
William Whipple
Massachusetts:
Samuel Adams
John Adams
Robert Treat Paine
Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins
William Ellery
Connecticut:
Roger Sherman
Samuel Huntington
William Williams
Oliver Wolcott
New Hampshire:
Matthew Thornton

Where's the enforceble law in that?

It has already been pointed out, but since you refuse to see it that goes to show the far left can not understand these things.

Going to condemn Obama for his illegal acts in Iraq?

 

[Lakhota]

Rightwing ignorance has exceeded my tolerance level for now. I have donated sufficient personal time to the Special Olympics. Bye...

 

[bodecea]

Printer-Friendly Version
The Declaration of Independence: A Transcription

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.

The 56 signatures on the Declaration appear in the positions indicated:

Column 1
Georgia:
Button Gwinnett
Lyman Hall
George Walton

Column 2
North Carolina:
William Hooper
Joseph Hewes
John Penn
South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge
Thomas Heyward, Jr.
Thomas Lynch, Jr.
Arthur Middleton

Column 3
Massachusetts:
John Hancock
Maryland:
Samuel Chase
William Paca
Thomas Stone
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe
Richard Henry Lee
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Harrison
Thomas Nelson, Jr.
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Carter Braxton

Column 4
Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris
Benjamin Rush
Benjamin Franklin
John Morton
George Clymer
James Smith
George Taylor
James Wilson
George Ross
Delaware:
Caesar Rodney
George Read
Thomas McKean

Column 5
New York:
William Floyd
Philip Livingston
Francis Lewis
Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
Richard Stockton
John Witherspoon
Francis Hopkinson
John Hart
Abraham Clark

Column 6
New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett
William Whipple
Massachusetts:
Samuel Adams
John Adams
Robert Treat Paine
Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins
William Ellery
Connecticut:
Roger Sherman
Samuel Huntington
William Williams
Oliver Wolcott
New Hampshire:
Matthew Thornton

Where's the enforceble law in that?

It has already been pointed out, but since you refuse to see it that goes to show the far left can not understand these things.

Going to condemn Obama for his illegal acts in Iraq?

No it has not....nice try. So...where is the enforcable law in the Declaration of Independence?

 

[EconChick]

The Declaration of Independence is just that...a Declaration...an Announcement. It is not a governing document, nor has an intelligent person ever thought it was.

Oh yeah, it's just an announcement....like the kind the principle would give about fire alarms over the microphone.

What a moron. Let me guess, you're a lawyer. Do you know how many brainwashed and indoctrinated lawyers and economists come out of overwhelmingly liberal undergrad and grad programs in this country??

You don't even know you don't know.

If you're not a lawyer, than I take it you learn from the internet. Yes, that's an object means of education (roll eyes).

So...you don't know what the word "Declaration" means. Color me surprised.

It wouldn't even surprise me to find out you don't even know what 2/3rds of the Declaration is all about.

The more you talk, the more of an airhead you reveal yourself to be.

I'm talking about a document connected to the very founding of a nation.

You want to talk semantics as in how many ways can a dictionary define something.


As usual, the larger point goes completely over the liberal head.

You libs keep implying the DOI has no meaning because it's not a legal document.

Even for those who make the argument it's not a legal document, it does not follow it's devoid of any meaning.

I know that was a very abstract post and hard for the simple to follow but another way to put it is you're wayyyy down in the weeds and missing the point that tens of millions of people see.

 

[Kosh]

Where's the enforceble law in that?

It has already been pointed out, but since you refuse to see it that goes to show the far left can not understand these things.

Going to condemn Obama for his illegal acts in Iraq?

No it has not....nice try. So...where is the enforcable law in the Declaration of Independence?

Actually it has, but the far left must lie about proof in order to protect the fact that Obama is starting yet another illegal war.

If you wish to continue to lie that is your choice and delude yourself into not condemning Obama for his illegal acts in Iraq.

 

[Kosh]

Rightwing ignorance has exceeded my tolerance level for now. I have donated sufficient personal time to the Special Olympics. Bye...

Once again the irony of those comments from the far left Obama drones.

 

[EconChick]

Where's the enforceble law in that?

It has already been pointed out, but since you refuse to see it that goes to show the far left can not understand these things.

Going to condemn Obama for his illegal acts in Iraq?

No it has not....nice try. So...where is the enforcable law in the Declaration of Independence?

What.An.Idiot.

Show me where Kosh links his objection to airstrikes to the Dec of Independence? I am not in complete agreement with him but his argument should not be summarily dismissed and his argument is rooted in law. Not the liberal interpretation of law. The traditional interpretation.


Do you even realize there are dif interpretations? That's why I'm asking what your legal background is. Are you a lawyer?

 

[bodecea]

It has already been pointed out, but since you refuse to see it that goes to show the far left can not understand these things.

Going to condemn Obama for his illegal acts in Iraq?

No it has not....nice try. So...where is the enforcable law in the Declaration of Independence?

What.An.Idiot.

Show me where Kosh links his objection to airstrikes to the Dec of Independence? I am not in complete agreement with him but his argument should not be summarily dismissed and his argument is rooted in law. Not the liberal interpretation of law. The traditional interpretation.


Do you even realize there are dif interpretations? That's why I'm asking what your legal background is. Are you a lawyer?

Where is the enforcable law in the Dec of Ind?

And one does not need to be a lawyer to know that the Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land while the Declaration of Independence is a.....declaration....not a law. Just like Washington's Farewell Speech and the Federalist Papers.....not law but very valuable historical documents.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Declaration of Independence 7/4/1776

".....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......"

Declaration of Independence - Text Transcript

Ahem, sparky, the Declaration of Independence is a FOUNDING document - but NOT a GOVERNING document.

Tell That to King George

Tell that to Jefferson Davis.

 

[Kosh]

No it has not....nice try. So...where is the enforcable law in the Declaration of Independence?

What.An.Idiot.

Show me where Kosh links his objection to airstrikes to the Dec of Independence? I am not in complete agreement with him but his argument should not be summarily dismissed and his argument is rooted in law. Not the liberal interpretation of law. The traditional interpretation.


Do you even realize there are dif interpretations? That's why I'm asking what your legal background is. Are you a lawyer?

Where is the enforcable law in the Dec of Ind?

Was posted here first that you dismissed:

http://www.usmessageboard.com/polit...litary-coup-against-obama-17.html#post9602322

The Organic Laws of the United States of America can be found in Volume One of the United States Code which contains the General and Permanent Laws of the United States. U.S. Code (2007)[1] defines the organic laws of the United States of America to include the Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776, the Articles of Confederation of November 15, 1777, the Northwest Ordinance of July 13, 1787, and the Constitution of September 17, 1787.

Organic law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Once again the far left shows they do not understand such things.

 

[Wry Catcher]

Both Houses (democrat and republican) own Iraq and the noose it's become..

Iraq Resolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

H. or Rep vote on the Iraq Resolution:

Republicans: 215 yes; 6 no; 2 not voting
Democrats: 83 yes; 126 no; one not voting

Senate:

R's 48 yes, 1 no
D's 29 yes, 21 no

They both may own it, but the R's have a good deal more 'equity'