Government/US Declaration of Independence

From iA wiki

This text is a Living Declaration; it is a participatory document that is meant to be both read and rewritten by We The People. Please feel free to edit and reform in order to create a more perfect union.

A Declaration of the blue and 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 peoples are created equal, that they are naturally endowed with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.--That to secure these rights, governments are instituted by 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 has shown, that people 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 cities states; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the current President 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.

He has declared a pre-emptive war, in the name of our attacked cities, on a people who are neither enemy nor threat unto us. He has ignored those who are an enemy unto us, allowing their freedom despite their attack on our cities, our people. He has broken international laws of humanity and justice. He has ignored the responsibility that we have as a nation to lead the world by example, not by force. He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners and refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither. He has appointed Judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the civil power, but dependant upon the corporate interests that profit by our taxes. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our liberal constitution, giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation: For unnecessarily deploying large bodies of armed troops from among us; For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of the world; For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury; For subjecting science and education to his own religious beliefs; For subjecting government and legislature to his own religious beliefs and the financial interest of the extremely wealthy; For taking away our states independence, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments. He has placed the burden of debt for these actions upon the children and poor of the world by ignoring the limited resources available on this planet, and failing to account for the consumption and destruction of those resources in his pursuit of capital; he has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, discouraged our cities, and threatened our future. He has placed the burden of debt for these actions upon our poor and our children by shifting the tax burden to those least able to pay it and borrowing funds into the foreseeable future.

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 president whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our Republican and Confederate brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the differences of our methods and intentions. 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 humble people of the blue and united States of America, solemnly publish and declare, that these American States are, and of right ought to be free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the Confederate States, and that all political connection between them and the Red and Confederate States, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as free and independent States, they have full power to conclude peace, to levy war, 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 we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor