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 — yea, even in the Year
of our Lord 2007 — 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, and not from
judicial activists who serve at their pleasure.
The history of the present leaders of the Democratic Party is a
history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct
object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these United
States. To prove this, let the facts be submitted to a candid
world.
They have refused their assent to laws, the most wholesome and
necessary for the public good; ignominiously ignoring election
regulations in the states of New Jersey and Florida.
They have refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of
large districts of people, unless those districts pledge allegiance
to them in perpetuity.
They have called together legislative bodies at places unusual,
uncomfortable, and distant, or fled from them into neighboring
states when necessary.
They have disrespected Conservative representatives repeatedly,
for opposing with manly firmness their invasions on the rights of
the people.
They have endeavoured to expand the population of certain
states; and for that purpose obstructing the laws for
naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to discourage
their migrations hither.
They have obstructed the administration of justice by refusing
their assent to laws for the confirmation of judiciary powers, as
enumerated under the U.S. Constitution.
They have erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither
swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance
and have kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies of
bureaucrats without our consent.
They have attempted to render the military irrelevant to and
devoid of the affections of the civilian power.
They have imposed income taxes on us in opposition to our
Founders’ intent.
They have combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction
foreign to our Constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving
their assent to their acts of immoral legislation:
For depriving us, as in the case of Terri Schiavo, of the
benefit of trial by jury:
For diminishing our Constitution, abolishing our most valuable
laws and altering fundamentally the limited forms of our
governments:
For superseding our own legislatures and declaring themselves
invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever,
enacting law from the bench, without the consent of the
governed.
They have excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and have
enabled the emergence on our shores of merciless Islamist savages,
whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of
all ages, sexes and conditions.
They have given appeasement to our enemies by protecting them
with mock trials, from punishment for any murders which they should
commit on the inhabitants of these States.
They have plundered our private property, ravaged our
educational system, disparaged our history, and demoralized the
very lives of our people by discouraging public worship of the
almighty and merciful Sovereign of the universe.
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 party whose character is thus
marked by every act which may define tyranny, is therefore unfit to
participate in the governance of a free and moral people.
Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our Republican
brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by
their moderates to extend their agenda over us. They too have been
deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We may someday,
therefore, acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our
separation and hold them, as we hold liberals; enemies in war, in
peace friends.
We, therefore, the Conservatives of the United States of
America, 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 red states, solemnly publish and declare,
that we are, and of right ought to be, free and independent from
liberals; that we are absolved from all cooperation with the
Democratic Party, and that all political connection between them
and us, is and ought to be, totally dissolved.
And that as a free and independent people, we have full power to
levy war, pursue peace through victory, worship God, and to do all
other acts and things which the United States was founded to
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.
