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    Exclamation 4th of July

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    In Congress, July 4, 1776
    The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen 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 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.--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 King of Great Britain 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 refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

    He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

    He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

    He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

    He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

    He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

    He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

    He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

    He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

    He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

    He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

    He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
    He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
    • For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
    • For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
    • For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
    • For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
    • For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
    • For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
    • For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, 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 Colonies:
    • For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
    • For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
    He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

    He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

    He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

    He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

    He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

    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.

    Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish 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 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 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.
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    • America the Story of Us: Declaration of Independence


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    • The Declaration of Independence (as read by Max McLean):

    • This Day in History: July 2nd of 1776 and John Dickinson:



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    • Sen. Cruz Commemorates Independence Day 2021:

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    Excellent posts john. Thank you

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    Hi John, Do you still live in the Netherlands? I want acknowledge and honor you today for being a Patriot in another Country and can appreciate America and the FREEDOM our Constitution provides to "We the People" and to post a thread about it... Happy Fourth of July wherever Patriots are!

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    Quote Posted by mojo (here)
    Hi John, Do you still live in the Netherlands? I want acknowledge and honor you today for being a Patriot in another Country and can appreciate America and the FREEDOM our Constitution provides to "We the People" and to post a thread about it... Happy Fourth of July wherever Patriots are!


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    Am born, raised and still live in The Netherlands as is my father & mother ... 1 grandpa (father side) was born in Germany came to The Netherlands before the WW2 and refuse to fight during the war ... 1 grandmother (mother side) was born in Temesvár Hungary she was National champion in Gymnastics and fled to The Netherlands. The rest are 100% Dutch. 1 Grandpa born in The Netherlands was an inventor & running his own business selling souvenir miniature windmills of all sizes where you can wind it up to play music when slowly turning the blades. The other grandpa was running a small grocery store with a large cellar helping Jewish family to hide from the Nazis. 1 grandmother (father side) has family roots coming from France.

    So am a "mixed bag" of 'pro active' genes and speak & read 4 languages.

    I have studied all kinds of revolutions not because I was told to do so or that it was taught at schools ... no ... I studied them because I knew there so much more to find out that is not "educated" via mainstream school systems. My focus is was how much influence has Secret Societies like the 'Free Masons' & Knights Templars has in the French Revolution, Dutch Revolution, American Revolution, Russian Revolution etc. that fascinates me because all revolutions are partially hijacked or corrupted or even initiated by Secret Societies and most do not want to know that.

    Most revolutions are ultimately inevitable and when the controllers know they gonna lose ... they will find other means to have influence & power through (corrupting) new (puppet) leaders and other key-people pulling the strings slowly hijacking new systems of "government".

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    "All these considerations give us more than sufficient reason to renounce the King of Spain, and seek some other powerful and more gracious prince to take us under his protection."

    • First page of the Act of Abjuration
    On July 26, 1581, the States General of the United Provinces of the Low Countries issued the Plakkaat van Verlatinge. The Plakkaat, commonly known in English as the Act of Abjuration, argued that the actions of King Phillip II of Spain delegitimized his rule over the Low Countries. As stated in its preamble, when a "prince" does not "defend them from oppression and violence as the shepherd his sheep.... but, on the contrary, oppresses them, seeking opportunities to infringe their ancient customs and privileges, exacting from them slavish compliance, then he is no longer a prince, but a tyrant, and the subjects are to consider him in no other view. And particularly when this is done deliberately, unauthorized by the states, they may not only disallow his authority, but legally proceed to the choice of another prince for their defense."

    One who is not familar with the Plakkaat might find these sentiments familiar; this is likely because of its similarities to the American Declaration of Independence, which states that "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."



    There has been much speculation about the ties between these two seminal documents, including claims that the authors of the Declaration used the Plakkaat as a model. But are the clear similarities prima facie evidence supporting this claim? In his essay "The 'Plakkaat van Verlatinge': A Neglected Model for the American Declaration of Independence," Stephen E. Lucas admits that the evidence is entirely circumstantial, but argues that the similarities are likely the result of more than just analogous political situations.
    • Act of Abjuration 1581:

    First, it is important to understand what Lucas calls the "mimetic aesthetic" of the period. To "invent" meant something very different in the eighteenth-century. The accepted meaning of the term was to find or discover. It is quite clear that Thomas Jefferson, the document's chief author, consulted other documents, such as George Mason's Virginia Declaration of Rights. As Jefferson explained years later, he did not intend to "invent new ideas" or offer "no sentiment that had ever been expressed before."

    In his essay, Lucas points out several similarities between the two documents. He claims the influence might not have been in the wording, but as "a paradigm for the argumentative structure." Among other similarities are a lengthy catalogue of grievances and the documentation of repeated unsuccessful attempts to seek redress for these grievances, which leaves no option but revolution.

    Historian Pauline Maier, who is not convinced by Lucas's argument, suggests that there might have been a secondary or tertiary influence if the Plakkaat influenced the English Declaration of Rights of 1689, which in turn influenced the American Declaration in 1776. But as Lucas points out, unlike the Plakkaat, the English Declaration does not contain a section comparable to the American Declaration's preamble.
    • Erik Scherder - Act of Abjuration (English subtitles):

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    This is a Very Powerful Speech ... should be shown everywhere!
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