We are still having similar arguments in America today, but the remote power that conservatives and libertarians worry about is the size, scale and scope of our own federal government.
It may be the most important political document ever written. But how the Declaration of Independence came to be is a story worth retelling every Fourth of July. And worth retelling because so many of the arguments surrounding our founding—we are, after all, a nation founded on debate and argument—are still being fought.
Arnn drilled down on the that point."You have to understand about America that it's an unprecedented thing, because it's like in the western movies. On the one hand, they're on the frontier, and it's wild, and there isn't law. And on the other hand, they're connected to a well-developed civilization. And so everybody knew about law, about learning, and about God. But all of the structure was taken away, and they got to start over.
That explicit military threat, the King hoped, would strike fear in the hearts of the American people. Then came these words:"When the unhappy and deluded multitude, against whom this force will be directed, shall become sensible of their error, I shall be ready to receive the misled with tenderness and mercy."
Thomas Jefferson was not a newcomer when it came to writing on behalf of the American people. In 1774, he wrote A Summary View Of The Rights Of British North America, addressing King George III directly. "The last part is what you would think the document would be about. It's a legal assertion of separation. And then the signers pledge their fortunes, their lives and their sacred honor to it. You'd think that would be first, because these are wanted men. And they're about to go to war, and they know that to lose it is to be hung, and even to fall into the hands of the British on the street is to be deported and probably hung. So you'd think they'd start with that.
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