REAFFIRMATION

A REAFFIRMATION OF

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

As Inspired By the Founders

Revised For a Modern Day UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

To Maintain Liberty for a Free and Independent Nation

Of the PEOPLE, By the PEOPLE, For the PEOPLE

The Unanimous Declaration of the People
of the Fifty United States of America

WE the People do hereby reaffirm that; 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 still 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 shown 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 the several States; and such is now the necessity which compels them to reaffirm their fundamental form of government. The history of the present Government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over the People of the fifty United States of America.

To prove this, let facts be submitted to the People of the fifty United States of America and to a candid world.

The Government has knowingly enacted laws that prove to be contrary to the wholesome benefit of the People and refused laws necessary for the public good.

Congress has failed to repudiate, on multiple occasions, a sitting President who has given contemptible speeches in foreign nations that degrade the United States, abrogating his Constitutional responsibility to promote and defend the United States of America.

The President, along with some members of Congress have entertained, and pursued, the ideology of empowering an international agency to regulate the valuation of currency, arbitrarily enforcing environmental policies on our nation causing unjust burdens on our economy that will limit our Natural Right to Independence, and subject the United States to a World Court, subjecting the People to penalties for actions not illegal in the United States, even granting full immunity from our laws to an international police force, thereby surrendering, and in part abdicating the sovereignty of our nation.

Congress has abdicated their Constitutional responsibility to coin money and regulate the value thereof by placing this duty in the hands of the Federal Reserve, and through this agency has habitually devalued our monetary system by printing exhaustive amounts of unsecured promissory notes.

The President has usurped the Constitutional power and authority of the Senate to give advice and consent of appointees to high offices by appointing instead Czars; claiming, through his actions, there is no need for any proper vetting process of the radical individuals, who have demonstrated their contempt of our great nation for years, prior to being positioned in the offices of our government.

The Government has purposefully usurped the powers and authorities of the several States, centralizing powers in the Federal Government that are only bestowed, by the People, to the States, thus asserting a position of direct authority over the People.

The Government has misused the powers and authority of the Supreme Court to advance and extend the power of the Federal Government without proper consent of the Governed.

The Government has, by purposeful design, instituted hidden and disguised taxes to accomplish taxation without representation and without consent of the People.

The Government has failed to secure our nation’s borders to prevent invasions, and has given unprecedented rights to our enemies and those who invade us, and are even contemplating signing into law, legislation condoning such invasion.

Members of Congress have, on numerous occasions, failed to promote, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States of America in violation of their oath of office.

Congress has falsely assumed power, contrary the Constitution, to legislate for the People in all cases whatsoever.

The President, and Commander in Chief, has delayed in providing sufficient reinforcements to our deployed military, according to the needs proscribed by qualified Commanders appointed by him, in a time of war, and then figuratively bound our military’s hands with crippling rules of engagement, negatively effecting the efficiency of our fighting forces.

Congress has illegitimately politicized our military by threatening not to provide adequate support to our military, deployed to a foreign land, while members of Congress vie for political concessions.

Congress has failed to maintain the moral standards of their members, opting to provide loyalty to members of a political party who have committed immoral and illegal acts, rather than maintaining loyalty to the oath of their office and to their constituencies.

Congress has consistently misappropriated tax revenues intended for specific programs, thus generating insurmountable, unfunded debts, intentionally burdening future generations.

Congress has improperly demanded more taxes of the People, during times of economic recession, while at the same time voting a raise to their own salaries, the salaries and size of their staffs, and increased congressional discretionary spending in a flagrant display of fiscal irresponsibility.

Congress has habitually made a practice of not representing the best interests of their constituents, but rather pursued their own political interests and agendas.

Several members of Congress have become actively involved in the destruction of our Representative Republic and, in so doing, purposed to transform our nation toward Socialism, altering fundamentally, our system of government.

Congress has, in the manipulation of the rules of their respective Houses, condoned and, at times encouraged, the despotic actions of their ranking members, by limiting or disallowing proper legislative debates and unjustly lowering the necessary legislative majority, and other manipulations of the rules of their respective Houses of Government, in an effort to force party politics on an unwilling People.

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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 government, whose character is thus marked by every act, which may define a tyranny, is unfit to represent a free people.

We have warned Congress, from time to time, of legislation attempting to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our form of government. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity; and we have conjured them, by the ties of our common citizenry, to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our happiness as a sovereign nation. They have been deaf to the voice of justice. We must, therefore, hold them responsible for their actions.

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We, the People of the fifty United States of America, therefore solemnly publish and declare that the Federal Government of the United States is out of control, instituting legislation contrary to the best interests of the People and the Welfare of the several States, and are therefore, in violation of the Constitution of the United States of America.

So that these United States may remain, and of right ought to be, FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES; united by the common consent of the People, in support of a Federal Government dedicated to the promotion and security of the several States, under the limitations of the Constitution of the United States of America, we do hereby throw off the presently distorted form of government, unfounded except through repeated usurpations and violations of the intentions of the Framers, and do hereby reaffirm that form of Government provided to citizens of the United States of America by the founding and framing of our nation.

So that we need not sever all political connection between the Government of the United States and the independent governments of the several States, that allows us, as a nation to have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which sovereign nations may of right do, we demand that Congress abolish all laws, practices, and activities contrary to those established under, or in harmony with, the Constitution of the United States or suffer the circumstances provided for in our Constitution, for a Representative Republic form of government, including the demand for removal of obstinate members, from either the House of Representatives or the Senate, regardless of status or rank, who are found to be guilty of the aforementioned charges and show no remorse or willingness to conform to the demands of this declaration.

For the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, as our Founders did, thereby setting an example for their posterity, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor in affirmation of this declaration and reaffirmation of our Nation’s original Declaration of Independence, and individually do hereby voluntarily join the common citizens in taking back our country from a government which has become oppressive and appears to be on the path to despotism.

2 Responses to REAFFIRMATION

  1. I find a problem with this statement, “We demand that Congress abolish all laws, practices, and activities contrary to those established under, or in harmony with, the Constitution of the United States or suffer the circumstances provided for in our Constitution…”

    It is not the Constitution that provides the VOTING Controlling members of the United States — The People — it IS the Declaration that provides the people with their power to alter or to abolish their FORMS of government (such as the Constitution or the Articles of Confederation).

    It is UNLIKELY that a corrupt congress is going to self correct. They ALREADY proven this as fact over the past 120 plus years.

    If you and others supporting this Declaration truly are SERIOUS, and you wish to act like the VOTING CONTROLLERS OVER the USA government that we are SUPPOSED to be, then we should rid ourselves of the entire lot of them.

    If you would like to review some of my suggestions for such actions; feel free to review the content of http://www.PortablePublishing.com

    Respectfully,

    Daniel Kingery

    P.S. Otherwise almost all the rest of this Declaration makes sense.

    • Daniel,
      Thank you for the feedback. However, let me forward the following argument.

      The Declaration of Independence stipulates a philosophy by which our nation was founded; that is to say, the common belief of ‘individual rights’ under ‘natural law’, and that governemnts are,
      1; institued by men to protect the rights of the People, and
      2; derive their powers from the consent of the Governed.

      Therefore, the Declaration of Independence provides no rights or powers, but rather is a ‘declaratory statement’ of a philosophy by which the Founders’ beleived we should be goverened.

      The actual Powers, and limits thereof, are detailed in the Constitution, which was declared as the “Supreme Law of the Land” upon ratification.

      My belief, as intimated by the passage you isolated, is that the ultimate power of governence in a Representative Republic lies with the governed, yet it is our duty to hold our representatives accountable by the provissions set forth in our Constitution.

      Therefore, it matters not, what politicians desire individually, or collectively, in regards to correcting corruption, or bad legislation, but rather it is the responsibility of the People to hold the collective feet of their representatives to the metephoric fire.

      As to ridding ourselves of “the entire lot of them”, I do not share this opnion completely. I want to beleive that some of the people elected to represent their constitutency are good, though at times misguided, and at times outgunned, so to speak.

      I am a proponent of the people of a given constituency determinning the Constitutional validity of their representative and acting accordingly. This is what allows each person to beleive and act on their political opinions without infringing upon anothers’.

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