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We hold these truths ….or we used to? May 21, 2007

Posted by reformedville in : culture, Government, Uncategorized , trackback

Been a really busy week , plus I am getting used to these new glasses, so I am catching up on some much missed reading of books once again ! Anyway, I had started to do some reading in the minimal spare time I have had this past week researching the genesis (and conflicting articles) of the first sentence of the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, which I hope to get a post out on this week.

But quite honestly, I have been distracted, no unsettled to the core frankly, after reading it again. To be honest, I have avoided reading it for quite a while because it makes me angry.  Coming from a founding family of Pennsylvania/United States, settling areas of the eastern parts of the state in which there was bloodshed, as well as family signing the Pennsylvania ratification(which amounted to treason against the crown), these documents have meaning as my family participated, as Huguenots who truly immigrated from Europe for religious freedom from a state religion.

“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…”

” 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”

I wish I could sit down over a cup of coffee with my forefathers and compare notes to see if the oppression from the crown was any worse than the oppression of the United States government.In reading their history, these men would be banging thesis on our church doors and be writing a new declaration today. I have been unsettled, because reading the clauses again reminds me that our forefathers were men of principle who wanted to live free and paid the ultimate price to do so, for us. Read those words, really read them. I do not know how a man today could read them an remain settled in their spirit.

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