#FourthofJuly “ … A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people…
… We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.
… We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here…
We have appealed 2 their native #justice + #magnanimity + we have conjured them by the ties of our commonkindred 2 disavow these #usurpations,…
… which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the #VoiceOfJustice and of consanguinity.
We, therefore, the #Representatives of the #UnitedStatesofAmerica, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to
the Supreme #Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by #Authority of the #GoodPeople of these Colonies,
solemnly #publish and #declare, That these united #Colonies are, and of Right ought to be #Free and #Independent #States,
… 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.”
#DeclarationOfIndependence The Want, Will, and Hopes of the People https://t.co/q1mG3fesYH
#ImWithHer
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#FourthofJuly “ … A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people…
… We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.
… We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here…
We have appealed 2 their native #justice + #magnanimity + we have conjured them by the ties of our commonkindred 2 disavow these #usurpations,…
… which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the #VoiceOfJustice and of consanguinity.
We, therefore, the #Representatives of the #UnitedStatesofAmerica, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to
the Supreme #Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by #Authority of the #GoodPeople of these Colonies,
solemnly #publish and #declare, That these united #Colonies are, and of Right ought to be #Free and #Independent #States,
… 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.”
#DeclarationOfIndependence The Want, Will, and Hopes of the People https://t.co/q1mG3fesYH
#ImWithHer
#FourthofJuly “ He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these #States; for that purpose obstructing the #Laws for #Naturalization of Foreigners;
refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new #Appropriations of Lands.
He has #obstructed the #Administration of #Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing #Judiciary #Powers.
He has made #Judges #dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
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 #TheWorld: For imposing Taxes on us without our #Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond #Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the #free #System of ”… …“ #Laws in a neighbouring #Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary #government,
+ enlarging its #Boundaries so as 2 render it at once an example + fit #instrument for introducing the same absolute #rule into these #Colonies…”
#ImWithHer
#FourthofJuly “ … A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people…
… We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.
… We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here…
We have appealed 2 their native #justice + #magnanimity + we have conjured them by the ties of our commonkindred 2 disavow these #usurpations,…
… which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the #VoiceOfJustice and of consanguinity.
We, therefore, the #Representatives of the #UnitedStatesofAmerica, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to
the Supreme #Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by #Authority of the #GoodPeople of these Colonies,
solemnly #publish and #declare, That these united #Colonies are, and of Right ought to be #Free and #Independent #States,
… 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.”
#DeclarationOfIndependence The Want, Will, and Hopes of the People https://t.co/q1mG3fesYH
#ImWithHer
#FourthofJuly “ He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these #States; for that purpose obstructing the #Laws for #Naturalization of Foreigners;
refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new #Appropriations of Lands.
He has #obstructed the #Administration of #Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing #Judiciary #Powers.
He has made #Judges #dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
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 #TheWorld: For imposing Taxes on us without our #Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond #Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the #free #System of ”… …“ #Laws in a neighbouring #Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary #government,
+ enlarging its #Boundaries so as 2 render it at once an example + fit #instrument for introducing the same absolute #rule into these #Colonies…”
#ImWithHer

#KnowledgeIsBeautiful #DomesticAbuse #Girlpower #LGBTQ #CivilRights #ClimateScience … Ctd… “ … A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people…
… We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.
… We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here…
We have appealed 2 their native #justice + #magnanimity + we have conjured them by the ties of our commonkindred 2 disavow these #usurpations,…
… which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the #VoiceOfJustice and of consanguinity.
We, therefore, the #Representatives of the #UnitedStatesofAmerica, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to
the Supreme #Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by #Authority of the #GoodPeople of these Colonies,
solemnly #publish and #declare, That these united #Colonies are, and of Right ought to be #Free and #Independent #States,
… 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.”
#DeclarationOfIndependence The Want, Will, and Hopes of the People https://t.co/q1mG3fesYH
#ImWithHer

#KnowledgeIsBeautiful #DomesticAbuse #Girlpower #LGBTQ #CivilRights #ClimateScience … Ctd… “ … A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people…
… We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.
… We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here…
We have appealed 2 their native #justice + #magnanimity + we have conjured them by the ties of our commonkindred 2 disavow these #usurpations,…
… which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the #VoiceOfJustice and of consanguinity.
We, therefore, the #Representatives of the #UnitedStatesofAmerica, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to
the Supreme #Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by #Authority of the #GoodPeople of these Colonies,
solemnly #publish and #declare, That these united #Colonies are, and of Right ought to be #Free and #Independent #States,
… 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.”
#DeclarationOfIndependence The Want, Will, and Hopes of the People https://t.co/q1mG3fesYH
#ImWithHer

#KnowledgeIsBeautiful #DomesticAbuse #Girlpower #LGBTQ #CivilRights #ClimateScience … Ctd… “ … A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people…
… We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.
… We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here…
We have appealed 2 their native #justice + #magnanimity + we have conjured them by the ties of our commonkindred 2 disavow these #usurpations,…
… which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the #VoiceOfJustice and of consanguinity.
We, therefore, the #Representatives of the #UnitedStatesofAmerica, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to
the Supreme #Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by #Authority of the #GoodPeople of these Colonies,
solemnly #publish and #declare, That these united #Colonies are, and of Right ought to be #Free and #Independent #States,
… 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.”
#DeclarationOfIndependence The Want, Will, and Hopes of the People https://t.co/q1mG3fesYH
#ImWithHer

#KnowledgeIsBeautiful #DomesticAbuse #Girlpower #LGBTQ #CivilRights #ClimateScience … Ctd…
“ He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these #States; for that purpose obstructing the #Laws for #Naturalization of Foreigners;
refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new #Appropriations of Lands.
He has #obstructed the #Administration of #Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing #Judiciary #Powers.
He has made #Judges #dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
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 #TheWorld: For imposing Taxes on us without our #Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond #Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the #free #System of ”… …“ #Laws in a neighbouring #Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary #government,
+ enlarging its #Boundaries so as 2 render it at once an example + fit #instrument for introducing the same absolute #rule into these #Colonies…”
#ImWithHer

#KnowledgeIsBeautiful #DomesticAbuse #Girlpower #LGBTQ #CivilRights #ClimateScience … Ctd… “ … A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people…
… We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.
… We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here…
We have appealed 2 their native #justice + #magnanimity + we have conjured them by the ties of our commonkindred 2 disavow these #usurpations,…
… which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the #VoiceOfJustice and of consanguinity.
We, therefore, the #Representatives of the #UnitedStatesofAmerica, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to
the Supreme #Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by #Authority of the #GoodPeople of these Colonies,
solemnly #publish and #declare, That these united #Colonies are, and of Right ought to be #Free and #Independent #States,
… 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.”
#DeclarationOfIndependence The Want, Will, and Hopes of the People https://t.co/q1mG3fesYH
#ImWithHer

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