EXPLORING FREEDOM [Part 2]
A closer look at the Declaration of Independence
As we look further into the text of the USA’s founding document, we will begin to see the foundation of why it was created.
“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…”
Our founder stated, “We hold these truths to be self-evident…”
They believed the following statements to be so clearly true that no one could refute them. They were as obvious as the difference between left and right, up and down, male and female.
“… that all men are created equal…”
Each and every human being to ever live has the same God-given rights. No one is more important than another.
The Declaration cites why they believed this;
“… that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—”
Each human being ever conceived is worthy of the right to live, the right to live free of oppression and enslavement, and the right to own property in the pursuit of happiness.
The next phrase declares how these God-given rights might be preserved to a society.
“That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men…”
It is a government that has the ability to guard the aforementioned rights for the inhabitants of a society.
This brings us to where a government gets its power.
Ultimately, a government’s power originates with God. It is God who holds ultimate power and authority, but He lends this power to governments through the “consent of the governed.”
“… deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…”
The moral to this story is that every abuse of governmental authority we experience is due to the American citizens’ failure to disallow the abuse.
It is “We the people” who are ultimately responsible for the sadistic abuses of power and theft of our wealth that politicians inflict on our nation because we “consent” to it through our apathy and inaction to hold offenders accountable. We consent to it through inaction against it.
We often look for a “savior,” [like Donald Trump, who we hope will do the hard work of restoring our constitutional republic,] instead of acting on the rights and privileges we inherited.
The Declaration of Independence and US Constitution are merely documents. They can not execute on behalf of our citizens; it must be the citizens who execute, based on the truths, rights, and provisions of these documents.
Let me give you a clue: ignoring the abuses, who the offenders are, and our duty to react faithfully and in accordance with our founding documents will only advance tyranny.
The value of our money is being stolen by a cabal of international and national bankers, elected government officials, and bureaucrats through systematic inflation [fiat currency.] We, the American people, do nothing.
The separation of powers that our founders built into the US government has been undermined and perverted to the enslavement of the American people. We, the American people, do nothing.
We ignore these truths to our own detriment.
Evildoers will never stop on their own, they will require that they be stopped by “We the people.”
God bless you, Dave