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The Declaration Of Independence

October 1st, 2011

The Declaration of Independence

If you had to think of one document other than the Bible that humans can most easily quote almost without thinking about it, that one document would be the Declaration of Independence.  The comparison to the Bible is apt.  Not that the Declaration of Independence is holy in a religious sense of the word.  But it has a place of reverence throughout the hearts of the American human beings along with throughout the history of the founding of this huge nation.

While not the in the beginning vocabulary of the Declaration of Independence, these stirring language have that kind of prophetic power that anyone who hears them in immediately inspired with the beauty, the poetry as well as the deep truths that were so beautifully expressed in that historic document.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed with the their Creator plus clear in your mind unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

This one statement from that famous declaration so beautifully demonstrates some core principles that appear why this document has such a deep impact during the American mind with heart.  The statement that the truths in this document were indeed truths is a profound statement in its own right.  The Declaration of Independence does that suggest that what is being declared in those pages are theories, possibilities, even political ideology.  These are truths which puts them throughout the same value as statements of values as often taught in a religious setting.  Truths are eternal values and values that are not changed with the position, from the whomever or whatever is handling the government of the land or through the whim of lawmakers.  These truths exist above those temporal earthly ideas in addition to live on that plain of the eternal. 

“Self evident” is a powerful phrase with it reflects usually in the founder’s belief in what was called natural law.  Natural law is the belief coordination that there are laws that are position of our natural state of existence in addition to that they cannot be taken away (inalienable).  These laws are our rights as creations of the almighty along with any government structure must recognize these laws because they are above government.  It is a basic belief organization of the American scheme that ALL humans are entitled to these rights as well as that they cannot be taken away.

The mention of a creator in the course of the declaration of independence is very important consequence~of super magnitude~of the essence} because there are those who would maintain that the divorce of church as well as state tells us that the government is at heart a secular institution.  Clearly the founders did not lay the basis of our country on that groundwork.  They saw the inheritance we as Americans have in our rights and freedoms to be position of our legacy from God plus as such, above the government along with something the government must back off in addition to rest alone as well as prettiest as well as defend.

The Declaration of Independence is truly an amazing document especially when you consider the “primitive” state of the nation when it was written with the Thomas Jefferson in addition to signed on July 2, 1776 to become the backbone of our American scheme of government.  It became an often referenced and quoted document, even becoming a duty of President Lincoln’s famous inaugural speech when he said plus such deep conviction…

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a topical nation, conceived in liberty, along with dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

Because these words are such a deep job of our American heritage, American history along with the American spirit, they are often a key consequence~of huge magnitude~of the essence} center job of any monitor of history in the course of the schools in this country.  That is why school children in every state are so familiar in addition to these vocabulary. 

But it would do us all well to take some time once a year or so with take our copy of the Declaration of Independence in addition to read it either as a private moment of reflection nor with our families.  What a wonderful fourth of July tradition that would make.  Then as you survey the fireworks celebrating the birth of the country with its independence, you will have those vocabulary contemporary in your heart to remind you that it was our creator that gave us our freedoms as well as independence as well as nobody has the right to ever take them away.

 

 

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