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“..we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.”
Posted by Duncan on July 4th, 2009
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
July 4th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Funny, I don’t see anything in there about making sure we’re all healthy, or taxing power producers out of business, or taking over major corporations because (in spite of incredible corporate ineptitude) they were “too big to fail”, or (especially) we all have the right to be happy.
But I do see two references to a Supreme Being.
The chances of this making it past any political convention today, whether led by socialists like Pelosi, Reid or Obama or by socialist lites like McCain or Steele? Somewhere between nil and Bwahahahahahahaha.
July 5th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
That was in Philadelphia, 1776. In D.C., 2009, there’s no such thing as “Sacred Honor”. It went the way of the dinosaurs and all those other useless things no longer seen, especially in politics.