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.
Two hundred and fifty
years ago the people of this land spent blood and
treasure and many gave their lives to create a country
based on an idea that was new in the world. Intellectuals today
mainly reject these propositions, arguing
instead that rights are only privileged spaces of
autonomy that the government gives to people whenever
doing so serves the needs of the government. This they
call Progress, a return to the world as it was before
America.
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and the Constitution and to the imperative need for
limited government and individual responsibility as
the only way to recover the American Idea and to renew
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is doing and to hold their elected representatives accountable
when they fail to live up to the oath of office.
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