To the mechanic in his workshop they will speak hope: to the slave in the mines freedom: but to the coward kings, these words will speak in tones of warning they cannot choose but hear …“Sign that parchment! Sign, if the next moment the gibbet’s rope is about your neck! Sign, if the next minute this hall rings with the clash of falling axes! Sign, by all your hopes in life or death, as men, as husbands, as fathers, brothers, sign your names to the parchment, or be accursed forever! Sign, and not only for your selves, but for all ages, for that parchment will be the textbook of freedom, the bible of the rights of man forever.’’ “The words of this declaration will live in the world long after our bones are dust. The works of God may perish: His words never! “They may stretch our necks on all the gibbets in the land they may turn every rock into a scaffold every tree into a gallows every Horne into a grave, and yet the words of that parchment can never die! They may pour our blood on a thousand scaffolds, and yet from every drop that dyes the axe a new champion of freedom will spring into birth! The British King may blot out the stars of God from the sky, but he cannot blot out His words written on that parchment there.
It was then that an unknown man arose, dressed in a black cape, to deliver this stirring oration. With every argument put forward being met with shouts of ‘Treason!!Treason!!!’, talks had hit a stumbling block. The signing of the declaration by any man would result in gruesome torture and death by the British Colonialists. The US Bill of Rights is preventing this from happening and allows the United States citizens to form a militia, under the 4th Amendment:Ī well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.Īs the story goes, then America’s founding fathers were deep in the volatile business of signing the Declaration, Treason was a resounding word. In the United Sates, we are witnessing a coup d’état where Socialism is trying to rear its ugly head within American democracy. He is described as not a young man, but one who had to summon all his energy for an impassioned plea. The legend says that at that point a man rose and spoke. Even so, to sign the Declaration of Independence was such an irretrievable act that the walls resounded with the words “treason, the gallows, the headsman’s ax,” and the issue remained in doubt. The men gathered there were honorable men hard-pressed by a king who had flouted the very laws they were willing to obey. There is a legend about the day of our nation’s birth in the little hall in Philadelphia, a day on which debate had raged for hours.
None of this would have come into fruition if the Declaration Of Independence was never signed on July 4th, 1776. The Declaration Of Independence was followed by the Constitution of the United States ratified on Jand officially enacted on March 4, 1789.Īlso, in 1789, the United States Bill of Rights containing ten amendments to the US Constitution was created and came into law on December 15, 1791. The United States Declaration of Independence formally outlined, at the time, the thirteen, independent and sovereign “United States” of America’s independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain, signed on July 4th, 1776 on Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by 56 of America’s founding fathers.
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