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Lady Freedom Returns

(14,120 posts)
Mon May 27, 2013, 06:05 PM May 2013

3 documents that can never get posted for ALL to read enough!

The Declaration of Independence,IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration.html

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.


The Constitution of the United States,Created September 17, 1787-Ratified June 21, 1788
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution.html
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America


The Bill of Rights,Congress of the United States begun and held at the City of New-York, on Wednesday March 4,1789-finally ratified Dec 15, 1791
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights.html
THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.

RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all, or any of which Articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution; viz.

ARTICLES in addition to, and Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth Article of the original Constitution.
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3 documents that can never get posted for ALL to read enough! (Original Post) Lady Freedom Returns May 2013 OP
I so agree! CaliforniaPeggy May 2013 #1
Them's ours, baby! RobertEarl May 2013 #2
I think this one's more important: kentauros May 2013 #3
KICK! Lady Freedom Returns May 2013 #4
 

RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)
2. Them's ours, baby!
Mon May 27, 2013, 07:07 PM
May 2013

What it boils down to is this: The government can't legally just mess with you.

Oh, they do mess with you, but if you ever get real justice, they'll have to stop.

Of course, if the people don't want to be free, then the people will not be free.

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