It Becomes Necessary

I love our Constitution. I want to go into Constitutional law to defend our Constitution. However, I have always found something special about the Declaration of Independence. I wish I could have been in that room as they signed it. What was going threw their minds? Where they thinking about if the impending war did not end in America's favor, what they would suffer? Was it with that thought that John Hancock wrote his signature in huge letters? The courage that went into the words on the Declaration of Independence is astounding. I guess on this Independence Day I would encourage you to look over those courageous words of our founding fathers. Perhaps you will find the same courage and strength that I find.

"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."

Jane