July 4, 1776
Declaration of Independence
Goodbye King George. We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.
“We, therefore, the representatives 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, and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states 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.”
Plain and simple. The signatories were representatives of the people as independence was declared for them and for all future Americans. Today not because of the paper, but because those Natural Laws espoused have been and always will be with us regardless of the parties, the politics, the tyrannies of passing minorities that come and go with fleeting moments of time.
God is our protector who endowed us with the rights we have because of both the Natural Law and God’s Law which no man, no King, including then the King of England, can deny or take away from us. And the seriousness of that simple fact is that all knew their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor were on the line and a price placed on their treasonous heads by the king.
As Shakespeare lamented with regret but the Founding Fathers claimed with unequivocal pride —— “What is done is done and cannot be undone. “kJuly N