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  • Happy 4th of July!
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      Posted Jul 4, 2009 12:34 AM

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      In 1776, a group of 56 men, ranging in age from 26 to 70 years, signed the Declaration of Independence. Within this group were two future Presidents of the United States (Adams and Jefferson), and the earliest known Abolitionist against slavery and the mistreatment of Americas native people (Benjamin Franklin). There are many great contributors to this document, but I think it is not a coincidence that the words "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." were included when we had a man like Benjamin Franklin involved at the highest level of the creation of this founding document. It is interesting to see how the character and lives of these men influenced this incredible writing. I think it fitting to share at least parts of that wonderful, founding document of the USA with you today.

      It begins with....

      "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 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."

      And it ends with:

      "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 Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, 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."

      And so was the birth of a nation...

      Celebrate today safely, and with deep thought of the price paid to live in the country we do today.



      -Fox
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      April 2008
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      My Journal: http://www.longhairloom.com/foxjournal.htm> Faithfully Fox

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