Refresh Knowledge and Memory
Reading our “Declaration of Independence” in exact
content accomplishes much. The content is what first
created US government in writing. Re-reading content
in portions can be better to appreciate our beginning.
As always, “He” indicates the King.
“He has affected to render the Military independent of
and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a Jurisdiction
foreign to our Constitution, and unacknowledged by our Laws,
giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large Bodies of Armed Troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment for
any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of
these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all Parts of the World:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us, in many Cases, of the Benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighboring
Province, establishing therein an arbitrary Government, and
enlarging its Boundaries, so as to render it at once an Example
and fit Instrument for introducing the same absolute Rule into
these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws,
and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves
invested with Power to legislate for us in all Cases whatsoever.”
Bonnie DeRose
Maui, HI
Part 7 of the author's article will be published in Hawaii Republican Party Newsletter next week. Stay tuned.
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