We just passed July 4th, what most people the world over consider American Independence Day. (That’s independence from the British Crown, for those currently in public school.)
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Declaration of Independence
Notable Quote – Democrats Now Stand For The Exact Opposite Of The Declaration Of Independence
When the elected delegates went off to the Continental Congress to represent the people of the 13 colonies, and eventually to sign the Declaration of Independence, everyone in America was a “subject.” However, alive in the hearts of those “subjects” who were delegates to the Continental Congress was a unique vision; a vision of life … Read more
We Need a New Declaration of Independence
Early Americans criticized their king’s rule with the memorable slogan “no taxation without representation” and decried His Majesty’s efforts to suspend their legislatures, altering fundamentally the forms of their government by imposing an arbitrary power structure instead.
Notable Quote – Goerge Will
The Declaration is not just chronologically prior to the Constitution, it is logically prior. As Timothy Sandefur writes, the Declaration “sets the framework for reading” the Constitution, so it is the Constitution’s “conscience”: By the terms with which the Declaration articulates the Constitution’s purpose – the purpose is to “secure” unalienable rights – the Declaration intimates … Read more
A 2020 GRANITE STATE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Granite Staters are created equal, with certain unalienable rights—to include life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And when government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter it.
Don’t “Insult” or Question Islam or its Prophet under penalty of arrest (or worse)!!!
The legal system in the US (other than in Louisiana) was originally derived from the legal system that prevailed in England for centuries, including the personal freedoms extracted from the King by the Maga Carta. Even with that long history of personal liberties, the colonists ultimately rebelled against the English Crown’s abuses as enunciated principally … Read more
America Was Not Founded on Slavery
The idea that America founded on slavery is an ignorant misrepresentation. Ben Shapiro addressed this leftist talking point and it bears repeating.
The consent of the governed
The Declaration of Independence asks and answers two fundamental questions about the nature of government, as understood by the people who founded America. First, what is government for? Second, from where does government derive its just powers?
Your Rights, If You Can Keep Them
Christopher Maidment recently began his post, A Republic, If You Can Keep It, by saying:
A Government Of The People, By The People, and For The People. That’s the whole foundation of this country.
I disagree. The foundation of the country begins with the Declaration of Independence. That document asks and answers two fundamental questions:
Demonstrate?
The founders, those who wrote the U.S. Constitution, understood people. They knew sometimes there is a need to complain publicly about governmental policies adversely affecting us. The American Revolution began with just such protests. The Declaration of Independence was a 28 item list of grievances against the King. Demonstrations are part of the fabric of … Read more
Bedford’s International Baccalaureate Coordinator Censors IB Students’ Honest Critique of the IB Program
As a former Bedford resident who continually questioned the value of the International Baccalaureate Program in the school district, I was not surprised when I found out that an attempt by IB diploma students to criticize their experience, would not be allowed. Bedford’s IB Coordinator, Jon Cannon sent an e-mail to the Senior Diploma Candidates, … Read more
Our Nation Was Founded to Protect Our Rights From People Like Democrat Douglas Ley
Like most Democrats, Representative Doug Ley thinks Government exists to protect us from ourselves or others. “Waiting periods can and do save lives by preventing impulsive acts of violence and suicide,” House Majority Leader Doug Ley said at a press conference after signing the bill. “Our most important job as legislators is to protect and … Read more
Part 1 – Testimony on behalf of HB564 – relative to possession of firearms in safe school zones
I am here in Concord to both record and to testify on HB 564 (“relative to possession of firearms in safe school zones.”). It’s not a good bill – one that I would suggest is a nuisance bill that just makes it harder for law abiding gun owners to exercise their Second Amendment and Article … Read more
The New Green Dress Code
At first, I thought this was yet another bogus AOC meme, but apparently she really said it.
Remember the epic idea that set this country in motion?
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.
A government created to protect your rights is supposed to be ‘in charge’ of you in the same way that your gardener is ‘in charge’ of your garden. They work for you, not the other way around.
Teacher Alters Declaration of Independence Makes Students Recite it With Her Changes
Some Woke smarty-pants Arizona Elementary School teacher took it upon themselves to alter the Declaration of Independence. They insisted on teaching their students that it read: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Humans are created equal.
“Education is key to continued liberty”
By Chuck Douglas [NOTE: Former NH Supreme Court Justice Douglas points out something that I’ve been saying (along with a lot of other people) for quite some time; bolded below from his address at the Josiah Bartlett Libertas dinner, reformatted, emphasis mine -Skip] More than Josiah Bartlett’s biography is the fact that he and the … Read more
Of John Locke
Having discussed the definitions of martial law and militia, it is time to begin the discussing the object of our study, the political philosophies of John Locke and roots of our Republics in his philosophies. To that end I will begin with who is John Locke. I myself have just finished a 400 page biography of John Locke, “John Locke, Philosopher of American Liberty”. As I began it, it seemed were firmly founded on John Locke’s political philosophy.
John Locke was born in 1632 in Pensford, Somersetshire in England to Puritan parents. As a Puritan, he would have been inculcated in the principles of self-government found in the 1599 Geneva Bible. This is the same religious perspective held by the Pilgrims who traveled to America from 1618 to 1623.
1632 was in the midst of the tug of war between King and Parliament, Catholicism and Protestantism, that led to the English civil war. This civil war was between
It is One Thing to Declare Independence…It is Another Thing Entirely to Have it.
It is a well reported truism that Independence day, the 4th of July, the day selected as the one on which we told our oppressors we’d take no more, that Republican’s and Conservatives, Libertarians as well, reap more significant social and political benefits than our Liberal and Democrat/Progressive opponents. The people who support the left are just not as in to it. Telling.
So this is not much different than the way many Democrats who run for elected office pander to their still-majority religious nation of ‘God-fearing’ peasants. The patriotism is an act. They pretend to admire the documents and ideas that, at their core, stand between them and the kind of government they prefer. They rearrange the words, and change the meanings to justify acts that reduce us to little more than slaves; either to finance their ambitions or as the impoverished recipients of them. Reduced to subsistence defined by a distant tyrant whose swarms of Officers harass our people, and eat out their substance.
What the left espouses as patriotism would more accurately be defined as Nationalism. The state and the party before all else. Not much different than having a king, something we said we didn’t want 236 years ago.
Which reminds us. It is one thing to declare Independence. It is another thing entirely to have it.
We live in a Republic. Your states are sovereign. Unshackle yourself from the distant tyrant. Just say No to Obama. And if we say no together, there is not much he or any progressive tyrant can do about it. Without us, they are nothing.
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.
Calvin Coolidge, July 4th, 1926
In 1926 President Calvin Coolidge gave a speech, an independence day address. It has just come to may attention, and I enjoyed it so much I felt obliged to share it.
We meet to celebrate the birthday of America. The coming of a new life always excites our interest. Although we know in the case of the individual that it has been an infinite repetition reaching back beyond our vision, that only makes it the more wonderful. But how our interest and wonder increase when we behold the miracle of the birth of a new nation. It is to pay our tribute of reverence and respect to those who participated in such a mighty event that we annually observe the fourth day of July. Whatever may have been the impression created by the news which went out from this city on that summer day in 1776, there can be no doubt as to the estimate which is now placed upon it. At the end of 150 years the four corners of the earth unite in coming to Philadelphia as to a holy shrine in grateful acknowledgment of a service so great, which a few inspired men here rendered to humanity, that it is still the preeminent support of free government throughout the world.