A NEW DAY IS DAWNING FOR AMERICA
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for
citizens to dissolve the political bands which have heretofore
connected them with the two, major, existing political parties and
to assume among the powers of the earth, a new political party,
with the separate and equal station which the Laws of Nature and
of Nature’s God entitles it, 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, political
parties are instituted among Men, deriving their powers from the
consent of their members, That whenever any political party
becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of those members
to separate themselves from it, and to institute a new party, laying
its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in
such form, as to them seem most likely to effect their Safety and
Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that affiliations with
existing political parties long established should not be changed
for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath
shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are
sufferable, than to right themselves by separating from such
political parties to which they are accustomed. But when a long
train of abuses and usurpations by both major, political parties,
pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce the
American public under the absolute Despotism of the Federal
government in Washington, D.C., it is their right, it is their
duty, to throw off their allegiances to such parties, and to form a
new political party for their and their children’s future security.
Such has been the patient sufferance of the American people; and
such is now the necessity which constrains the undersigned citizens
of the United States of America to alter their allegiances to their
former political parties. The history of the present Republican
and Democratic Parties is a history of repeated injuries and
usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an
absolute Tyranny by the Federal government over the American
people. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
Both parties have created a tax system which stifles
individual initiative and hard work and punishes those who
would produce the wealth of this nation, while rewarding those
who would choose to do nothing at all.
Both parties have created a tax system which, at the end of
the barrel of gun, compels citizens to subsidize a political
spoil system designed primarily to keep members of those
parties in power.
Both parties have created whole classes of people who, to their
spiritual detriment, have become solely dependent on the
Federal government for their sustenance and, as a result, sell
their vote to whichever party offers them the most
governmental assistance.
Both parties have systematically gutted the Right of the
citizenry to bear such arms as are necessary to protect
themselves and their families against evildoers, both foreign
and domestic.
Both parties, in pursuit of maintaining political position and
power, have run future generations of this nation so far into
debt that those generations can never realistically hope of
being free of the yoke of those to whom that debt is owed.
As a major component of the debt saddling our children and
grandchildren, both parties have pursued a policy of
providing trillions of dollars of “bail outs” to failing banks,
mortgage lenders, credit card companies, Wall Street
investment firms and multi-national corporations who owe no
allegiance to this country, justifying such bail outs to the
public with the argument that these entities were just “too big
to fail,” where in actuality the motivation for such “bail outs”
was both parties’ continued indebtedness to these big
businesses and the unions associated with them.
Both parties have pursued a policy of encouraging the ever-
increasing centralization and collectivization of wealth and
power in an evil triumvirate of Big Government, Big
Business and Big Unions, to the detriment of those
principles of limited government, individual liberty and
personal initiative, which made this country great.
Both parties have debased the value of citizenship in this
nation by permitting those who would ignore and defy the
immigration laws of this nation to freely enter and remain
herein.
Lastly, both parties have allowed the laws and Constitution
of this nation to be so subverted and twisted that giving honor
and glory to Nature’s God, our Creator, either in our
schools or in our public discourse, is now forbidden by a court
system instituted to protect the same unalienable Rights He
endowed.
We, therefore, as citizens 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 of
the good People of the United States of America, solemnly
publish and declare, That we are and of Right ought to be Free
and Independent of the Republican and Democratic Parties;
that we are absolved of all allegiance to those parties, and that all
political connection between us and those parties, is and ought to be
totally dissolved; and that as members of a new, Free and
Independent political party, have full Power to do all Acts and
Things which an independent political party may of right do.
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.
