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Bravo! Frankly, I'd prefer to substitute these lines wholly for the current
Pledge. The Declaration is our most important document. The Constitution
is great, as far as it goes, but it is merely the documentary foundation of
one type of government. Our true power and our true freedom as a people
rests in these excellent passages from the Declaration. The Declaration
reminds us not that we need third or fourth parties (or, in today's case, a
second party), but that we have the power to imagine and implement other
forms of social organization beyond those with which we are familiar.
Lucio
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From: Tatman, Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [CTRL] Reviving the Declaration Of Independence (fwd)
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> I like the proposal to add lines from the Declaration of Independence to
the
> Pledge of Allegiance, but I would go farther and include the following
> excerpt:
>
> "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 when any government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the
right
> of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government,
> laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in
such
> form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and
> well-being.
> Prudence indeed will dictate that governments long established should be
> changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience
hath
> shewn, that mankind are 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 design, evinces a desire to reduce them under absolute despotism, it
is
> their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and provide
new
> guards for their future security."
>
> I DARE anyone--Democrat, Republican, Reform, Green, whatever--to require
> THAT to be said each day by the nation's schoolchildren. It remains the
> single most revolutionary statement ever written, and it is a sin that
very,
> very few American citizens have any idea what's in it.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MICHAEL SPITZER [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 1999 12:48 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [CTRL] Reviving the Declaration Of Independence
> (fwd)
>
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> The Claremont Institute--PRECEPTS
> October 22, 1999
> <http://www.claremont.org>
> No. 199
>
> In December of 1776, General George Washington and the
> Continental Army crossed the icy Delaware River to Trenton, New
> Jersey. There, the Americans won their first major victory in the
> war of independence against the British. On November 8, 1999, the
> Claremont Institute will cross the Delaware and fight another
> battle in Trenton, for the same principles as those for which
> Washington and his men fought 223 years ago.
>
> An issue has arisen in New Jersey that reaches to the heart of
> the principles of Washington. It is raised by the Declaration of
> Independence Bill, which has been stopped, dead in its tracks, in
> the New Jersey State Senate. The bill, fiercely opposed by a
> contingent of liberal lawmakers, was passed by the lower house.
> The bill would require students in the state's public schools to
> recite two sentences from the Declaration of Independence daily,
> along with the Pledge of Allegiance. They are:
>
> "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."
>
> <snip>
>
>
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