Do I have the right understanding of this part of The Declaration of Independence?
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Ummm... I guess.  (Although I don't know if I have any idea what you're talking about.  What's the dif between capita and \nca-pita?)  \n\nSo, are you saying we should be against our corrupt government, or are you saying you've got a beef with French Canadians and Brits?  On second thought, I really don't know what you're talking about.  But I like your style.  You've got zazz.  \n\n(Incidentally, what's up with your avatar?  Are you the Punisher or something?)
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There is no provision in either document you cite which says keeping all the fruits of our earnings is a part of freedom.\n\nNow, our founding fathers were involved in colony govts before they were involved in rebellion.  In Virginia, our house of burgesses provided money every year to every widow and orphan.  We also applied our tax money to construction projects for the common good.  We also had courts to help protect our rights.  \n\nWhen we had our revolution, we were opposed to taxation WITHOUT representation, we were not opposed to taxation.  We never have been.\n\nYou have a pretty limited view of humanity and our responsibility to create a just society.   Plus, you seem to be basing it on parts of our founding documents which don't exist.
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Articles of Confederation?  I'm not sure exactly what you're asking.
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To declare our independance from Britain. The Declaration stated the reasons why the thirteen colonies were freeing themselves from British Rule.\nJust read the ideals part of the declaration. It tells u pretty much why in more detail.
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I think so. It was definitely helped along by radicals on both sides but I don't think either the issue of slavery or that of whether or not states had a right to secede (A major point of debate and contention since the ratification of the Constitution), would ever have been resolved otherwise. It's unfortunate but sometimes that's just the way it is. In the end our country was much better off though.
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Are you talking about the English Magna Carta or the Constitution and Bill of Rights of the USA.???\nIt is confusing.
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The Declaration of Independence was written to declare our nation's freedom. It was written so that our country could have a choice of religion, freedom of speech, and all the other freedoms we sometimes don't give thanks for and take for granted.
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well, jefferson wrote in the declaration of independence, "when in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another... that governments are instituted among men... deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed... " as justification for the secession of the colonies from the british empire and the creation of a new state.\n\npresumably the same considerations applied to the people of the southern states and their wish to dissolve the political bands which connected them to the republic, especially as when jefferson continued "whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and institute new government... it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government".\n\nseems pretty reasonable to secede from a union based on principles graven in the very document which formed that union.
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Go back to our roots.   The Declaration of Independence, Constitution and the Bill of Rights.  \n\nWe were founded by rebels who wanted free religion seperate from government and declared it a basic human right to pursue happiness in equality with all.\n\nOur beginning is quite beautiful...we have fallen off the road somehow.  Jefferson said when Capitalism surpasses Democracy we will become  disfunctional. ...Guess what?
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wth? they dont actually state the language in the constitution my dear...\n\nbut it does seem a bit odd seeing as though the whole document is written in...*ahem*...ENGLISH!\n\nand what kind of question is this? you have absolutely no grounds for this foolishness...it doesnt even makes sense...
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As I've said before welcome to the new Rome, check out there history and how it collapsed, we are heading down the same path. my great great grandfather signed the declaration of independence, and  you can bet he is turning in his grave.\n peace out.  \n\n                                      I AM
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I will try it be short - no guarentees.. History can be long and complex.\n\nEver since the subject of Congress taking up Birthright Citizenship have we seen the power of ignorance at work through the main stream media. It is difficult to find any editorial or wire story that correctly gives the reader an honest and accurate historical account of the Fourteenth Amendment in regards to children born to foreign parents within the United States. Most often the media presents a fabled and inaccurate account of just what the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment means. \n\nDuring the reconstruction period following the civil war the view on citizenship was that only children born to American parents owing allegiance to no other foreign power could be declared an American Citizen upon birth on U.S. soil. This is exactly the language of the civil rights bill of 1866: "All persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States." \n\nThe author of the Fourteenth Amendment, Rep. John A Bingham (OH), responded to the above declaration as follows: "I find no fault with the introductory clause, which is simply declaratory of what is written in the Constitution, that every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen." \n\nAlready before we get to the Fourteenth Amendment Citizenship Clause we have the entire Congress declaring only children born to parents who owe no foreign allegiance shall be citizens. We also have the author of the Fourteenth Amendment declaring this is law of the land. It just gets worst for advocates who want to either believe or, revise history, to support their fable that the Fourteenth Amendment somehow magically makes anyone born in the United States regardless of the allegiance of their parents a natural born citizen. \n\nSen. Jacob Howard, who wrote the Fourteenth's Citizenship Clause to the US Senate as follows: \n\n[T]his amendment which I have offered is simply declaratory of what I regard as the law of the land already, that every person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States. This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons. \n\nSo than, what exactly did subject to the jurisdiction mean? Sen. Lyman Trumbull, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, framer of the Thirteenth Amendment told us in clear language what the phrase means under the Fourteenth: \n\n[T]he provision is, that 'all persons born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens.' That means 'subject to the complete jurisdiction thereof.' What do we mean by 'complete jurisdiction thereof?' Not owing allegiance to anybody else. That is what it means. \n\nSen. Jacob M. Howard, responded to Trumbull's construction by saying: \n\n[I] concur entirely with the honorable Senator from Illinois [Trumbull], in holding that the word "jurisdiction," as here employed, ought to be construed so as to imply a full and complete jurisdiction on the part of the United States, whether exercised by Congress, by the executive, or by the judicial department; that is to say, the same jurisdiction in extent and quality as applies to every citizen of the United States now. \n\nMyths can be difficult to dispose of, and birthright citizenship to aliens is no exception.\nCivil Rights bill of 1870 declared those children born to parents subject to a foreign power cannot be declared United States citizens. \n\nUS Su
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I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.\n\nFive score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.\n\nBut one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.\n\nIn a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."\n\nBut we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.\n\nWe have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.\n\nIt would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.\n\nBut there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.\n\nThe marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here
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What parts of the Declaration of Independence or it's Amendments extend to illegals in this country?  \n\nFreedom of Speech?  \n\nSure.  Everyone has a right to freedom of speech but only if they're legal.  They also have a right to get legal and pay taxes just like I do.  They have a right to health benefits and to not be taken advantage of by big or small business owners but not if they're illegal.  Illegal means they're breaking the law.\n\nIf I were breaking the law, I'd be put in jail for it.  No question about that because that's America for you.  But you won't see me jumping the borders into Mexico then starting my own "freedom of speech" protest marches or demanding that the Mexican (or any other country) government take care of me.  DEMANDING it.  Not getting the same benefits and opportunities as any legal citizen?  Then just DEMAND it because they are "illegal".  They are shooting themselves in the foot by protesting.  \n\nLegal immigrants can protest all they want.  I'm sure they'd feel the same way if I went to their country and started my own protest marches.\n\nI'm a taxpayer.  You can call me whatever you want, but I'm still a taxpayer.
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It is to briefly explain what Americans were fighting for and what they expected in the shaping of a better America, so that issues concerning everything around us, could be properly managed for "WE the people of the United States in order to form a more perfect union and establish justice to ensure domestic tranquility and provide for the common defense promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our prosperity do ordain  to establish this Constitution for the United States of America.\nEach of the points stated in the preamble signfy what we as Americans stand for and believe in.
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My answer would be yes due to the Fact that the founding fathers understood the value of human rights thus the "Declaration of Independence" was born. The reformation in reality was the reforming of the peoples mind and the understanding of what "SELF EVIDENT" meant. One Nation Under God, "indivisable" meant you could nt be seperated from the devine.. "In him we live, breath, move and have our existance, with liberty and Justice  for all...these liberties where granted by the supreme creator of the universe, and our founding fathers along with Martin Luther knew this, they preached it, practiced it, and most of all, LIVED IT....MAY GOD BLESS
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Well... its kindof hard to sort through the baby talk you put in your question.  You should try to write a question that makes sense and then fill in the details after people click on your question.\n\nIs this what you're after?\n\nSecret Word\n\n     When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for\none People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected\nthem with another, and to assume, among the Powers of the Earth,\nthe separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of\nNature's God entitle them, a descent Respect to the Opinions of\nMankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel\nthem to the Separation.\n\n     Printed above is the first paragraph of the U.S. Declaration\nof Independence.  Select any one of the first 20 words.  Count\nthe letters and call that number n.  Move ahead n words,\nbeginning with the word after your selected word.  When you reach\nthat nth word, count its letters and move ahead as many words as\nthe new letter count.  Continue in this manner, counting letters\nand moving ahead words, until you stop on a word that's beyond\nthe fourth line.  \n\n     On what word did you stop? _________________________________