Please enjoy the barbeque and fireworks. Then, take some time to read and enjoy a few excerpts from our Declaration of Independence. The entire document deserves a careful reading, but you will be edified if you study even these few selections.
Note how many times The Deity is mentioned. It is only recently that the mention of God has become politically incorrect. In a day when the Democrats are contemplating confiscating “underutilized” private property for conversion into low-income housing, and also constructing low-income housing units in suburban neighborhoods, it may be useful to note that, to the founders, the pursuit of Happiness meant the pursuit of property (individual property rights). It is clearly stated that our rights are bestowed on us by the “Creator,” and that the role of government is to protect those rights … not to infringe on them or take them away. To that end, the people are the authority from which the government gets its just powers.
Those who signed the Declaration were truly doing so at risk of their lives and their fortunes. It is important that we take notice that they were relying on God to protect them in doing so.
In Congress, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration
of the thirteen United States of America, 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, …
We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; …
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor. [1]
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