Independance Day - 2008

This 4th of July marks the 232nd anniversary of a treasonous document signed by 56 men who in so doing were also signing their death warrants should they be captured. A document which, opposed to common view, had more to do with English common law then any grand statement of a free people.

The Declaration of Independence lists out the many and various transgressions of the British crown against the people of the American colonies and seeks to prove that in legal terms those same people had the right to throw off the bounds of their sovereign lord in England and establish their own government. This right to deny the sovereignty of the crown dates to the Magna Carta.

Essentially, when the Declaration of Independence was written, more correctly titled "The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America," it was a declaration to the rest of the world that they were not denying the law nor were they against monarchies in general, but the rights they had as loyal British Citizens were violated by their very crown and they there fore had no choice but to throw that same crown off and stand on their own.

This move was very important for the times to come, as the only powers which were, at the time, able to stand against the British Empire were themselves Monarchies. The only way to survive this dangerous time in the before now untested waters of full colonial rebellion was to be as civilized as they could and to toe the letter of the law as much as they could.

Our nation is the result, and long may it stand.

The official site of the Declaration of Independence can be found here.

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration.html