This week as we celebrate Independence Day, a holiday time worn to simply July 4th. It may be a good time to reflect on one of the greatest documents ever written by men who would challenge the bonds of oppression and pass freedom on to all who would follow.
On July fourth 1776, fifty-six signers representing the thirteen colonies fixed their signatures to the Declaration of Independence.There was extreme danger to each of these men who gathered to announce to the world and the King of England that we are a free people and will remove the shackles of the King.
The document they drafted and signed was to become the heralding cry for the creation of a government that held so many truths to be unalienable rights, the natural rights of man. The most important of these rights that was described in that historic document was that governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. We are among a small club of nations with this belief, most others are the other way around. The government has the power and allows some to the people.
I chose this one example of unalienable rights for this topic because I believe that we may have turned the corner, that government now controls us to a greater extent than at any time in our history and I do not see many men and women representing us today with the wisdom, integrity and passion for freedom exemplified by those signing that great document on July 4th 1776.
This Independence Day may be a good time to find a copy of that cherished document and read it, refresh our memories and reflect upon the history of a nation so long lasting, so prosperous, a nation that has been the dream of immigrants for nearly 250 years.
Let’s renew our faith in our beginnings and demonstrate the same kind of courage those men from the thirteen colonies demonstrated and not allow those today who would reduce that document and our history to ashes.
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