A New Declaration

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to redistribute the power which has for so long been drained from the majority and given to the oligarchy, and reassume among the powers of the earth, the equal station to which the Laws of this Nation entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of all require that they should declare the causes which impel them to their action.

We hold these truths to be self-evident:

That all people are created equal, that they are endowed by their mere existence with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness;

That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted amongst the people, deriving their just and limited powers from the consent of the governed;

That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right and Duty 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 protect their Safety and Happiness. 

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly history has shown that 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 Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, 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 these United States; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their current Government. The history of the present Oligarghy is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over the People. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

They have refused their Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

They have forbidden their elected officials to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation until their assent can be obtained; and when so suspended, they have utterly neglected to attend to them.

They have obstructed the administration of Justice by refusing to assent to appointments for establishing a working judiciary.

They have erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

They have kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of people.

They have acted to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

For continuing large and unpopular wars on foreign soil, utilizing bodies of armed troops taken from their positions at home.

For establishing ‘Free Trade’ with all parts of the world, causing the removal of millions of jobs and billions in capital.

For imposing Taxes on the majority while removing taxes from the wealthy:

For depriving us, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For abolishing our most valuable and protective Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

They have plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, raped our natural resources, and destroyed the lives of our people.

They are at this time organizing large Armies of police and National Guard to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the heads of a civilized nation.

They have excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and have endeavored to bring on the citizens of our Nation, at home and abroad, merciless terrorists whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. Leaders, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, are unfit to be the representatives of a free people.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the Majority of the American Citizens appealing to the common sense of the Majority for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of this Nation, solemnly publish and declare, that the power of this Nation, Right ought to be returned to the people from which is derives, that we are Absolved from their ursurpation of power.

And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Law and History, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.