There comes a time in the course of history of a free country when it becomes necessary for the governed to express their grievances with the government. It is the right of the people to expect the government to consider the grievances, make corrections to redress the grievances, or be replaced by another government. It is not the government’s role to elevate its position above the people and force change on the people based on an elitist view. While it may be obvious to all, the self-evident truth may need repeating. It is the people who 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.”
The People of the United States of America have agreed to be governed as a representative republic, not a democracy. The people of each state are supposed to be represented in a fair manner. It was originally only as a matter of convenience that the People of the United States of America consented to leave the legislative part of government to be managed by a select number chosen from each state by the people of each state through the process of state elections or state legislative appointments. Those selected were supposed to have the same concerns at stake as those who elected them with the expectation that those selected would act in the same manner as the whole body would act were they present. These elected or appointed representatives must never develop a self-interest separate from the state electorate.
Experience has pointed out the propriety of having elections often. Those previously elected can then return and mix again with the people. In a few months, their loyalty to the public would be reaffirmed since it would be clear to all that those previously elected had not made a cent for themselves. It was not the intent to establish a political profession. And as this frequent interchange would establish a common interest with every part of the community, the elected and the governed would mutually and naturally support each other. On this depends the strength of the government and the happiness of the governed. As it is written under law, so let it be done. But it should always be understood that it is because of The Constitution of the People, not the Constitution of the Government, that the law is not oppressive.
“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 affect their Safety and Happiness.”
“Prudence and common sense dictate that a long-established government should not be changed for light and transient causes. It can be 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 objective evinces a design to reduce them to a collective, then 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 nearly one half of the People, those in the Heartland of America who oppose absolute socialism and have been disenfranchised by a marginally corrupt government establishment aided by a conspiratorial, leftist-liberal media. The history of the United States since the early 1900s is a history of progressive, incremental social engineering projects, all having the direct objective of establishing an absolute socialistic state. The Citizens of the United States of America renounce this socialistic objective.
The preceding IS NOT the Declaration of Independence as written and signed on July 4, 1776. This new Declaration of Independence was published in the Ozark County Times in 2009 and in The Moral Case for American Freedom in 2017.
This new Declaration has three main objectives. It is pointing out the corruption that occurs with a “political profession”. It is denouncing Progressivism. And it is justifying the replacement of an overreaching Government establishment through an honest and accurate electoral process when necessary.