Independence Day - Read the Declaration

Satch · Jul 4, 2008

For my American fellow countrymen I would like to recommend that you take 15 minutes of your time today and read the Declaration of Independence.

You may Google it in various forms on the web.

For other Nationals I would recommend the same.

Satch

Prince · Jul 4, 2008

Great idea. I have a copy in book form that I occasionally read. Just to remind myself what it's all about.
I keep it in my office at work and it is a great conversation piece. I'm surprised how many people look at it and tell me they have never read more than the preamble.

ouch · Jul 4, 2008

+1

Here's a link to it. Essential reading for all.

http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showpost.php?p=225216&postcount=1

_JP_ · Jul 4, 2008

I read the original in Philadelphia. Now that was a good read! :thumbup:

vcardona · Jul 4, 2008

Ahem! Isn't the original stored at the National Archives in Washington, DC?

thirdeye · Jul 4, 2008

Excellent idea....I haven't read it in awhile but I'm more than happy to have read it again..... :thumbup:

Gaz · Jul 5, 2008

I have it hanging in bedroom (not the original :wink:

). It is between a copy of the Bill of Rights and the Virginian Declaration of Rights (which influenced the previous two documents). Not only would I encourage folks to read it, but consider hanging a copy in your abode.

TimmyBoston · Jul 5, 2008

vcardona said:
Ahem! Isn't the original stored at the National Archives in Washington, DC?

It is at the moment, but it very could have been at other places over the years. :smile:

_JP_ · Jul 5, 2008

vcardona said:
Ahem! Isn't the original stored at the National Archives in Washington, DC?

You are correct.

We were at the Liberty Bell Center in 2003 when we saw the Declaration of Independence. That was the same year that the center had opened and it (or an official copy) was there. I do remember that it was in a bullet proof (bomb proof?) glass case that was design so the documents could disappear underground in an emergency.

Isaias · Jul 5, 2008

I am not an american patriot. I am not American. This country has bueatiful things and many other not so much. However this is one of the best political texts written in american history

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...
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Perhaps there are just a couple more as as well written and inspiring... (the constitution is not one of them, but it does not have to be)

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Independence Day - Read the Declaration

Satch

Prince

ouch

Stjynnkii membörd dummpsjterd

_JP_

vcardona

thirdeye

Gaz

TimmyBoston

_JP_

Isaias

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