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I like the proposal to add lines from the Declaration of Independence to the
Pledge of Allegiance, but I would go farther and include the following
excerpt:
"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 when any government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right
of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government,
laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such
form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and
well-being.
Prudence indeed will dictate that governments long established should be
changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath
shewn, that mankind are 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 design, evinces a desire to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is
their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and provide new
guards for their future security."
I DARE anyone--Democrat, Republican, Reform, Green, whatever--to require
THAT to be said each day by the nation's schoolchildren. It remains the
single most revolutionary statement ever written, and it is a sin that very,
very few American citizens have any idea what's in it.
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The Claremont Institute--PRECEPTS
October 22, 1999
<http://www.claremont.org>
No. 199
In December of 1776, General George Washington and the
Continental Army crossed the icy Delaware River to Trenton, New
Jersey. There, the Americans won their first major victory in the
war of independence against the British. On November 8, 1999, the
Claremont Institute will cross the Delaware and fight another
battle in Trenton, for the same principles as those for which
Washington and his men fought 223 years ago.
An issue has arisen in New Jersey that reaches to the heart of
the principles of Washington. It is raised by the Declaration of
Independence Bill, which has been stopped, dead in its tracks, in
the New Jersey State Senate. The bill, fiercely opposed by a
contingent of liberal lawmakers, was passed by the lower house.
The bill would require students in the state's public schools to
recite two sentences from the Declaration of Independence daily,
along with the Pledge of Allegiance. They are:
"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."
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