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Introduction to:
A Declaration by the Representatives of the United
Colonies of North-America. 1775
By Christopher Holloman Hansen
Before the United States Constitution or even the Declaration of Independence were written, the Representatives of the United Colonies in 1775, still seeking to be loyal English subjects yet unwilling to allow the yoke of tyranny to set comfortably upon their necks met in Philadelphia and offered a humble and dutiful petition to the King of England to inform him that parliament had usurped their authority and violated the constitution of the kingdom, of which the colonies were a part, and that their attachment to no nation upon earth would “supplant their attachment to liberty.” As freemen, duty bound to support liberty, the common law and constitution of the kingdom, and with reason and negotiations having failed, the Continental Congress decided that Parliament had limited the colonies to choosing between an unconditional submission to tyranny, or resistance by force. The latter was their choice.
The Declaration is a very interesting document and deserves close attention when we consider the current state of affairs in the United States of America. One of the key reasons for taking up arms against England was that our Founding Fathers could not endure the infamy and guilt of VOLUNTARILY resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaited those coming generations if the founders were to allow hereditary bondage to be placed upon their children by failing to resist the threats and encroachments upon their liberty by England. America’s founders were not only concerned with their own liberty but that of their children and posterity. The Preamble to the Constitution clearly declares, to secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity. Their children’s liberty was more important to them than their own SECURITY; lives and fortunes as such concerns were manifestations of their honor.
In contrast, the celebrated and currently revered World War II generation led by Franklin Delano Roosevelt established and actively pursued a system: the Social Security System, which has basely entailed hereditary bondage upon each succeeding generation. Every child born today that is assigned a Social Security number is assigned the chains of debt placed upon their shoulders by a government originally established for the very purpose of keeping future generations free of bondage. The taxes that support this socialist program are paid by “succeeding generations.” The most horrible truth is that the financial beneficiaries of this slavery are the very mothers and fathers that receive government Social Security checks paid for by monies collected by force through threat of incarceration and financial ruin from the very succeeding generations that they should have been protecting from such slavery. This “voluntary system” is the very antithesis of this declaration, the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution. The Constitution was written to, “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” In contrast the Social Security Act was established to create hereditary bondage upon Posterity. The following is a quote from the Social Security Administration- Publication Number 05-10010 January 1999.
Social Security represents a pact between generations-a financial and social commitment among people of all ages.
The Bible, centuries ago, foretold of a similar scenario in Hosea 4:6:
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
This nation has forgotten our duty and responsibilities to our children and has instead enslaved them with debt bondage. We must repent or face the wrath of a just God.
“Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.” Thomas Jefferson as quoted in The Federalist Digest.
The following declaration was written for the Colonial Representatives by Thomas Jefferson, Henry Steele Commanger, John Dickinson, and Samuel Eliot.
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