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18. That's the Declaration of Independence
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 03:58 PM
Apr 2014

This is the Preamble to the Constitution:

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.


This is the Declaration of Independence:

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.

Now, this isn't one of your trap-polls where you do research on those who vote the "wrong" way Skip Intro Apr 2014 #1
nobody's forcing you to vote or even post in this thread CreekDog Apr 2014 #4
You do know it is obvious what your doing... SQUEE Apr 2014 #9
I'm sure others would like to know too, if this is one of your traps where you encourage DUers Skip Intro Apr 2014 #10
i'd like to know why you called me "cjeekdgg" CreekDog Apr 2014 #11
So it is one of your poll traps, then. (Desperate deflection is a huge tell). n/t Skip Intro Apr 2014 #13
no one's forcing to you post in this thread, post about the poll, post your opinion CreekDog Apr 2014 #15
A public service, alerting others of what they could be in for - months and years of Skip Intro Apr 2014 #21
so you're here because you care about DUers CreekDog Apr 2014 #22
Just trying to do my part. n/t Skip Intro Apr 2014 #25
Obama thanks you for the support CreekDog Apr 2014 #26
After voting the "wrong" way pipi_k Apr 2014 #32
I voted no tazkcmo Apr 2014 #2
Already covered in the Preamble of the Constitution. SQUEE Apr 2014 #3
so guns shouldn't be in there either? CreekDog Apr 2014 #5
not relevant to your poll... SQUEE Apr 2014 #7
Obviously. Codeine Apr 2014 #6
It already is in the Declaration of Independence. WilliamPitt Apr 2014 #8
yeah but slavery existed with all those things in there CreekDog Apr 2014 #12
He's quoting the Declaration of Independence REP Apr 2014 #23
true, i responded too quickly CreekDog Apr 2014 #24
You are quoting the Declaration of Independence tritsofme Apr 2014 #14
It's almost surprising how many people don't know what's in the Constitution REP Apr 2014 #19
I was thinking the same thing; but I don't know whether the words of the Declaration of Independence LeftishBrit Apr 2014 #17
They are not part of the Constitution nor are they binding REP Apr 2014 #20
That's the Declaration of Independence REP Apr 2014 #18
It is, BTW, in the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights LeftishBrit Apr 2014 #16
that's the main reason I voted YES in the OP poll.... mike_c Apr 2014 #27
I don't think it can be done loyalsister Apr 2014 #28
"promote the general welfare" plcdude Apr 2014 #29
No...... Swede Atlanta Apr 2014 #30
^^this^^ Puzzledtraveller Apr 2014 #33
It should replace the 2nd Ammendment. Crunchy Frog Apr 2014 #31
rights do not exist Puzzledtraveller Apr 2014 #34
If it was could I sue the Government if I felt I was not getting adequate health care? dilby Apr 2014 #35
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