A US Declaration of Independence for World Peace
This is a fantastic document, I wish we had it here in Australia. I know in Australia we have sought freedoms, I met the guy who was working on a Bill of Rights here, I learned a few days ago by a prominent lawyer here that the Bill of Rights was refused by government leaders. There are attempts to change the discrimination legislation refer http://www.abc.net.au/news/interactives/racial-discrimination-act/
I think what has not been understood by the word freedom is that it is truly meaning freedom from negativity. When you find your inner truth you will start to connect with inner joy, that only comes from genuine truth. What I discovered is when I questioned myself I became free from the anger of prejudice, I freed myself from the negative feeling of judgement, I became free of hate as everyone is my teacher. I realised that true freedom was happiness and I do feel that the founding fathers in the United States understood that. They were indeed wise people. When we all are free to love each other without prejudice you experience the freedom of unlimitedness and you free people to be themselves. If they learn about inner values without being told what to believe they will naturally find their own way to truth. We know the answers when we find stillness.
This is a journey of great contrasts, there will be differences, challenges and conflict. Healthy conflict makes us think more deeply and reach for our own truth, that was how democracy was originally designed through debate, to get people reaching for truth. Somehow it became distorted and scripted, debate became grandstanding in parliament (at least in Australia anyway – I’ve watched it) rather than a genuine debate where ideas are discussed, challenged and debated but the person is never demonised. What happened is that bullying came into these forums and people became demonised as they were on the wrong side of politics, they became the enemy to be countered at every point. The true democracy was lost in personalising and fighting to win. We became competitive and forgot that the purpose was to work together ultimately for the greater good so all can live in freedom. We seem to have forgotten this, I guess life will help us to remember when it all gets too hard.
Read this document thoughtfully, it holds some keys to the issues we are experiencing now. When you hold truth to be self evident and realise the equality in others, you will never put them down or treat them as inferiors. Discrimination disappears. Everyone indeed has the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Imagine if everyone lived this – there is the end to war and the beginning of freedom. We feel happy when everyone is fed, receiving health care and moving through society with a smile, I know this as a clown, it can happen. We can find happiness, but we have to take responsibility for what makes us feel unhappy within, to develop a set of values to live by and if they are true values, they will indeed free you. We will see a new earth arise in ways that will be breathtaking. That is the promise held out to you. I send you happiness.
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html
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The Declaration of Independence: A Transcription IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –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 effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that 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.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. 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. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. 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 to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, 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 good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. 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. The 56 signatures on the Declaration appear in the positions indicated: Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 Column 5 Column 6 |
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