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The Declarationsists
Simply, we will use the opening paragraphs of the DoI to reassert the primacy of Liberty, Justice, and Equality as the pillars of our society. We begin with the assumption that over the past 200+ years our governemnt has turned into and entity as perverse as the rule of King George, and that the words of the DoI must be applied to life as we live it today, without the barriers and perversions brought on by centuries of entrenched, interested autocrats feeding us the malarky of what our forefathers really meant by what they wrote. The text stands on its own, it only needs to be applied to our present day circumstance, and not processed through the filters and mirrors of the ruling class. So we begin at the beginning, but with the knowledge that people of every race, sex, economic status, sexual orientation, and religious faith are all equal in the great land of America!
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, 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, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right 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 effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind 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 Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
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