The Goat Pen

sardis wrote:Last night I was helping my 4th grader study for his History test which they are currently going over the Revolutionary War. He had to learn the beginning part of the Declaration of Independence we all know, "We hold these truths to be self-evident..." etc., etc. ending in "Life, liberty, and the pursit of happiness..." But it is good to read the rest of the document, especially this part:

"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. 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."



http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htm

Jungle Rat wrote:Since when did it become wrong to pee on dead afghans?

Bklyn wrote:Because they are basically children over their protecting our freedom.