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The 2012 Declaration of Independence. This is the revised and rewritten version of The American Declaration of Independence for the people of 2012 and the future of the American country. |
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[[Steve Kubby]], a former candidate for the [[Libertarian Party (United States)|Libertarian Party]] nomination for President, has also signed the pledge. |
[[Steve Kubby]], a former candidate for the [[Libertarian Party (United States)|Libertarian Party]] nomination for President, has also signed the pledge. |
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On October 15, 2007, Paul introduced House Resolution 3835, the "American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007" before Congress,<ref name=thomas>{{cite web |url= http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.R.3835:|title=American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007 |accessdate=2007-11-09}}</ref> which sought to legislate the aims of the American Freedom Agenda. The measure, which is co-sponsored by [[Dennis Kucinich]], has had no action since November 15, 2007.<ref name=thomas/ |
On October 15, 2007, Paul introduced House Resolution 3835, the "American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007" before Congress,<ref name=thomas>{{cite web |url= http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.R.3835:|title=American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007 |accessdate=2007-11-09}}</ref> which sought to legislate the aims of the American Freedom Agenda. The measure, which is co-sponsored by [[Dennis Kucinich]], has had no action since November 15, 2007.<ref name=thomas/> |
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On December 1, 2012 The American Declaration of Independence was revised and rewritten for the American people of this decade and century. The revision was done by Adam M. Wagner of Tennessee. The text contained in this document is meant to revitalize the freedoms and Independence that the American people once held. |
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The 2012 Declaration of Independence |
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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. |
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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 influence their safety and happiness. |
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But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to diminish them under absolute repression, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. |
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Legislative bodies have been called together in places unusual, and uncomfortable, from the collection of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into submission with the governments measures. |
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They are erecting a multitude of new offices, and groups of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance. |
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They have combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving assent to their acts of fabricated legislation: For imposing taxes on us without our compliance: For altering fundamentally the systems of our governments: |
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In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated petitions have not been resolved. |
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We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. |
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We have appealed to their forms of justice and high-mindedness, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of liberty. We must, therefore, comply in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends. |
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We, therefore, the true representatives of the United States of America, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by authority of the good people of these States, solemnly publish and declare, that these United States are, and of right ought to be free and independent States and that as free and independent States, they have full sovereignty 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. |
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==References== |
==References== |
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Revision as of 04:19, 24 December 2012
The American Freedom Agenda (AFA) is a United States organization established in March 2007 by disaffected libertarian-oriented conservatives demanding that the Republican Party return to its traditional mistrust of concentrated government power. It describes itself as "a coalition established to restore checks and balances and civil liberties protections under assault by the executive branch." It was founded by Bruce Fein (chairman), Bob Barr, David Keene and Richard Viguerie.[1]
The ten points of the American Freedom Agenda pledge are:
- No military commissions except on the battlefield.
- No evidence extracted by torture or coercion.
- No detaining citizens as unlawful enemy combatants.
- Restoring habeas corpus for suspected alien enemy combatants.
- Prohibiting warrantless spying by the National Security Agency in violation of law.
- Renouncing presidential signing statements.
- Ending secret government by invoking State Secrets Privilege.
- Stopping extraordinary rendition by the U.S.
- Stopping threats to prosecuting journalists under the Espionage Act of 1917.
- Ending the listing of individuals or organizations as terrorists based on secret evidence.
Timeline
On March 20, 2007, Ron Paul became the first presidential candidate to sign the American Freedom Agenda Pledge.[1][2] The group labeled presidential candidate Mitt Romney "unfit to serve as president" when he failed to sign the pledge.[3] Steve Kubby, a former candidate for the Libertarian Party nomination for President, has also signed the pledge.
On October 15, 2007, Paul introduced House Resolution 3835, the "American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007" before Congress,[4] which sought to legislate the aims of the American Freedom Agenda. The measure, which is co-sponsored by Dennis Kucinich, has had no action since November 15, 2007.[4]
References
- ^ a b Savage, Charlie (2007-06-12). "Disaffected conservatives set a litmus test for '08". Boston Globe.
- ^ Dead link: American Freedom Agenda at C-Span on streaming video
- ^ "Conservatives Say Mitt Romney Unfit to Serve as President". FindLaw.
- ^ a b "American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007". Retrieved 2007-11-09.
External references
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