CABL Forum - Re: you can look at this a couple different ways

I disagree. The DOI was basically the first 'act' of the U.S., adopted and confirmed by unanimous decision on July 4, !776. Granted, it was directed to great britain and the king but it was voted as if an act. In fact it was referred to by James Madison as "The fundamental Act of the Union of these States."

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Jefferson intended the Declaration
to be “an expression of the American mind,” and wrote so as to “place
before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and
firm as to command their assent.”
The structure of the Declaration of Independence is that of a common-law legal document; the stated purpose is to “declare the causes”
which impelled the Americans to separate from the British. The document’s
famous second paragraph is a powerful synthesis of American constitutional
and republican government theories. Its opening words are
striking: “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.”
All men have a right to liberty only in so far as they are by nature equal,
which is to say none are naturally superior, and deserve to rule, or inferior,
and deserve to be ruled. Because men are endowed with these rights, the
rights are unalienable, which means that they cannot be given up or taken
away. And because individuals equally possess these rights, governments
derive their just powers from the consent of those governed. The purpose
of government is to secure these fundamental rights and, although prudence
tells us that governments should not be changed for trivial reasons,
the people retain the right to alter or abolish government when it becomes
destructive of these ends.

You might want to brush up on your his-story aka history.

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Re: you can look at this a couple different ways