“We, your Majesty’s faithful subjects…” began the petition beseeching reconciliation with King George from the Second Continental Congress on July 5, 1775. That offering became known as the Olive Branch Petition. The following day, Congress issued its Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms, explaining why hostile British troops would henceforth be gunned down on the battlefields of America. [More]
As with all things, the number of warnings will be finite.
[Via bondmen]
“Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor groused in 2014 that fewer than 20% of high school seniors “can say what the Declaration of Independence is, and it’s right there in the title.”
Until about 25 years ago, the federal citizenship exam asked immigrants to name the most important idea in the Declaration of Independence. The “correct” answer was that all men are created equal… which isn’t the correct answer at all! The actual correct answer is that a government’s duty is to protect the rights of its citizens, and when it chronically fails to do that, the citizens have a right to replace it BAMN — something no government would ever voluntarily admit.
If citizens don’t understand what the DoI is, it’s because they have been carefully educated not to.