Monday, July 06, 2009

It Is Their Right, It Is Their Duty

Watching National Treasure from 2004.
Yes it's a movie but "The Declaration of Independence" is real living document. In a scene from the movie this is said.

"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. "
The Declaration of Independence

What did our framers know?

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