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"The American people possess a God-given right to alter or abolish the United States government—federal or state—and replace it with something new.
That statement lands hard. Maybe it strikes you as radical. Maybe extreme. Maybe you dismiss it because I’m the one saying it.
But consider this: without exactly this kind of thinking, there would be no United States of America.
The men who founded this nation weren’t moderates playing it safe. They were radicals who bet their lives on a principle most people today have been trained to forget.
Let me remind you what that principle sounds like:
We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are … endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…. That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men…. 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 affect their Safety and Happiness. … Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
— Declaration of Independence (1776)"
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"The American people possess a God-given right to alter or abolish the United States government—federal or state—and replace it with something new.
That statement lands hard. Maybe it strikes you as radical. Maybe extreme. Maybe you dismiss it because I’m the one saying it.
But consider this: without exactly this kind of thinking, there would be no United States of America.
The men who founded this nation weren’t moderates playing it safe. They were radicals who bet their lives on a principle most people today have been trained to forget.
Let me remind you what that principle sounds like:
We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are … endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…. That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men…. 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 affect their Safety and Happiness. … Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
— Declaration of Independence (1776)"
https://mk3blog.substack.com/p/the-right-to-alter-or-abolish-the
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"The American people possess a God-given right to alter or abolish the United States government—federal or state—and replace it with something new.
That statement lands hard. Maybe it strikes you as radical. Maybe extreme. Maybe you dismiss it because I’m the one saying it.
But consider this: without exactly this kind of thinking, there would be no United States of America.
The men who founded this nation weren’t moderates playing it safe. They were radicals who bet their lives on a principle most people today have been trained to forget.
Let me remind you what that principle sounds like:
We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are … endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…. That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men…. 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 affect their Safety and Happiness. … Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
— Declaration of Independence (1776)"
https://mk3blog.substack.com/p/the-right-to-alter-or-abolish-the
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