This is a group project done for my American Foundations class and as you can see by the order of names who was the most important contributor to this document. Or there was no real order to the names and that is just the way Travis our scribe put them.
Declaration of Independence rewrite.
If the people’s natural, God given rights are being abused by the government, the people have the right to separate and form their own opinions if they should form a new government or not.
All men are created equal, and have rights given by God; our natural rights. The government secures these rights when the people give up some of their freedom and liberty in order for protection, safety, and security. If abused, the people have the right to reform the government. Being wise and fact will decide that long standing governments should not be changed on a whim; Therefore experience shows we are all more susceptible to suffer, while the less righteous are more likely to put more rights upon themselves by getting rid of the organizations that they are used to. But when a ubiquitous strain of robberies, pursuing an undeviating course the same thing that manifests a design to put them under a strict ruling that has absolute power. It is there privilege, duty, and right to take over a government by any means necessary and provide new soldiers for security in the future. –This has been the long suffering of these colonies. And now there is a requirement that forces them to change their previous system of Government. The past history of the current King of England is a sad history of continuous monarchy over the states. To further show this monarchy, we prove to the world these facts.
He is unwilling to give to make the laws that are necessary for our benefit and the public’s benefit.
He has not allowed his governors to pass urgent and important laws which were not passed until he approves and agrees. In pending form, he neglected to grant permission for those laws.
Due to large groups of people, he neglected to pass laws of accommodation unless the people would surrender the right of representation in legislature, which is a right that would only benefit the tyrants and not us.
He has gathered legislative bodies in less comfortable and unorganized places, and far from storage of public records, forcing them to agree with his stipulations.
He continuously rids himself of the representatives of the people that oppose him or stand in his way.
He has continuously refused, after dissolving these representatives, to allow others to be elected, whereby, the legislative powers are not capable of protecting the people, having return to the majority for their success; in the meantime leaving the state exposed to many challenges and chances of invasion from both without and within.
He has continuously sought out to kill off the population of the colonies. For that reason he has stopped people from making something of themselves, constrain people from improving the lot of their own life.
He is preventing them from getting their own law enforcement.
He has imposed himself as judge, jury, and executioner over the judges and dictates the payment of the judges.
He has sent his officers to harass and take over the people.
He has imposed marshal law upon us without our consent
He has attempted to give military superior power over the civilians.
He has joined with others to put us under an unknown jurisdiction of our constitution and unrecognized by our laws, giving his permission to their acts of false legislation.
For putting soldiers in civilian homes.
For attempting to put them in a false trial for the crimes they have done.
For stopping free trade with the rest of the world;
For giving us too many taxes without our permission
For not giving us the benefit of trial by jury by our peers.
For shipping us to other countries to be tried for false offenses.
For getting rid of the right to create laws in a neighboring state, establish a changing government, and making the boundaries bigger to make it an example in order to introduce these same rules to the other colonies.
For taking away our rights and privileges, removing our most precious laws and changing our fundamental forms of government.
For ruling out our own legislatures and claiming themselves to have power to rule over us in any situation.
He has plundered a government by means of claiming us not underneath his protection and declaring war against us.
He has dominated our seas, stolen our coasts, overthrown our towns, and mutilated the lives of our people.
He is currently moving large armies of foreign mercenaries to utterly annihilate, and desecrate us, which has begun with situations by cruelly violating our rights by a manner never before seen in history and completely unworthy of a ruler of an empire.
He is trying to turn our people into spies and to fight against their own country, to become murderers of their friends or to die at their hand.
He has aroused domestic disturbances and has sought to turn the Indian savages against us who have no rules of war, killing women, children, and fetii.
During each phase of this situation, we have asked to give us some slack in the most polite way. Our requests keep being ignored. The prince, who is basically a tyrant right now, isn’t qualified to rule these people.
We aren’t doing this to get attention. We have warned the British each attempt they have tried to do something to us not within their power. We have reminded them about our situation here and how we got here. We have discussed about the justice and the nobility of Britain, and we propose with our fellow man that these ties be erased, which would destroy our relationship and interaction. They also have not listened to the voice of reason. With this we must submit that we are finished with them, and so we will consider them for the rest of our existence enemies during war time and friends during peace time.
Representing the United States of America in this assembled congress, having God backing up our actions, do, by the authority of these colonies, boldly say, That these colonies are, and should be free and independent states, and are free from any connection to the King, and all political relation between them and Britain, is and should be destroyed; As free independent states, they have all power to control their affairs in war, declare piece, make alliances, establish an economic system, and do all other acts and things other countries do. Supporting this declaration, with God being our witness, we swear to each other our lives, our property, and our royal Honor.
Mark Breidenbaugh
Mike Engel
Taylor Harper
Kimberly Gordon
Travis Curtis
