July 4, 2020
The unanimous Declaration of the 50 sovereign states of 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 people 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 the people, 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 political, media and business leaders of the United States 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.
Leaders have usurped the freedoms guaranteed by the United States Constitution!
Governors have passed Laws to intimidate and to harm their citizens, causing death to tens of thousands.
Government and state regulations have refused to enforce laws guaranteeing liberty and freedoms of assembly, religious services and public gatherings to protest illegal rule.
Deep Sate leaders allowed others to be elected; who were not elected by the people of the United States but by a few who stole the election with fraudulent ballots.
Local and State governments have obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
Judges have been political in nature, and thus dependent on the Will alone, of those politicians who have selected them instead of defending the people and the Consitution.
Government has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
Government has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
Congress has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of a fair Trial:
For abolishing the free System of American Laws 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 states:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own elections, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
Government here, by declaring us out "terrorist" has been waging War against us.
Leaders have excited domestic insurrections amongst us, allowing rioting in our streets and acts of criminality and murder.
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.
We have warned them from time to time of attempts by our legislatures 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 states, solemnly publish and declare, That these United States are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States of the present governmental leaders who have usurped our freedoms and rights; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to this present governance, and that all political connection between them and the State of the leaders of this nation, 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.
