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The Declaration of Independence: An Edit [1]
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Date: 2025-04-13
Declaration of the Free People of the United States of America
by the Ghost of Thomas Jefferson
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve their government and restore the political bands which connect them with one another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the 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 people 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 the People, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that whenever any 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 the 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 the People of our nation, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to restore their former Systems of Government.
The history of the monied elite of the United States, as represented in the current corrupt president, is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over our People. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has forbidden his Government to administer and adhere to 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 administer and adhere to other Laws for the accommodation of large groups of Americans, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has advanced a torrent lies and deceptions against the People, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has repeatedly discharged and harassed Representatives and good servants of the People, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the People.
After such discharges, he has caused to be installed incompetent and corrupt officials; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise, the People remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavored to obstruct the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by undermining Judiciary powers and installing corrupt judges.
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 harass 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 dependent on him and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to an oligarchy foreign to our Constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world that do not bend to his will;
For imposing destruction of vital government functions 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 offenses;
For taking away our Charters, ignoring and undermining our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Government;
For corrupting our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against those who would stand up against him.
He has plundered our Treasury, ravaged our Economy, corrupted our Schools, and destroyed the lives of our People who do not accept his corrupt rule.
He is at this time raising large Armies of domestic terrorists to complete his works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has excited domestic insurrection among us.
In every stage of these Oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most insistent 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 Republican brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislatures to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the values and norms on which we have together built the success of this Nation over 250 years. 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 free People of the United States of America, in General Consensus, appealing to the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name and by Authority and Right established in our Constitution, solemnly publish and declare that we are and of Right ought to be Free of tyranny; that we Absolve ourselves from all Allegiance to oligarchy and its corrupt representatives, and that all political connection between us and the current corrupt occupant of the office of President is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent People, we have full Power to remove him, reestablish domestic Peace, restore and respect our Alliances, restore Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent People 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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