Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Individual Declaration of Independence


IN CONSCIENCE, July 4, 1996
A DECLARATION
By MYSELF, a SOVEREIGN INDIVIDUAL,

In assembly with no one, but standing firm on my own judgment:
When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for Individuals to dissolve the Political Bonds which have connected them to others, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.
As one such Individual:
I hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all People are created equal, that they are endowed by their Nature with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Property and Happiness. That to secure these Rights, Governments have been instituted among People, deriving their allegedly just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is My Right—the Right of any Person—to alter or to abolish it, and to institute No Government.
Instead, as is right, proper, and beneficial to a Free Person, to create and cooperate with only voluntary organizations which serve my needs, laying their Foundations on such Principles and organizing their Powers in such Form as to me shall seem most likely to effect my Safety and Happiness.
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