Why should you remember the American Revolution: Introduction

Why should you remember the American Revolution: Introduction

History was one of my best subjects in school but what I recall most is the events in the American Revolution. There have been several American Revolution's, but I am speaking of the one that started this nation. This single event not only shaped our nations future, bet
set a precident for other struggling nations under the imperialistic banner. I want to explain why it is so important for us as Americans to connect the stories proceeding the War for Independence, and the struggles Americans are having today. America's hertiage is dwindling everyday due to the eroding politics in Washington and that is not a one sided argument. Both sides of the house are at falt for allowing factional groups to proceed their special interests.

If you read The Declaration of Indepence you will easily notice the ursapations that King George III commited against the 13 colonies. Our government is approaching this kind of tyranny, and will arive to it if the American people do not take action. If we do not remember our independence as it was in 1776, then I'm afraid we are doomed to any tyrant that would wish to shred our constitution. My goal is to take each of the offenses written in the declaration and see if there is any relation in our time. Here is the list:

He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws fornaturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.

He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.

He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature.

He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states:

For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing taxes on us without our consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:

For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses:

For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule in these colonies:

For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments:

For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.

There are some more beyond this, but they are long paragraphs. The rest is atwww.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/freedom/doi/text.html

Before I go into these in the further posts, I will wait about a week for people to share their thoughts. Go ahead and see if you can relate to any of these.

   


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