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Yesterday, on July 4th, we celebrated our 233rd Independence Day as a nation. This is the day the Declaration of Independence was signed, but the process of separation from British began years earlier with the Boston Massacre in 1770, where five colonists died. The unease continued in 1773, when the colonists organized the Boston Tea Party to protest a tea tax.
The Battle of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775 officially began the American Revolution. On June 7, 1776, the Second Continental Congress voted for a resolution stating “these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and...
The People’s Declaration of Independence
The reason that I put forward the D of I as being a legal document is to remind people that the federal government was never to have specific powers in regards to individuals. As the federal government's purpose was not really to preserve those liberties fought to be retained, but rather to strengthen and protect the state government's that were already doing so, I see it as a disingenuous and misleading argument as to the D of I being a legal document federally.
On the federal level it is states/people corporately that are the concern, and not individuals. Thus the whole discussion is not natural rights or inalienable rights, but states rights, and as states are creations of sovereign...