The Freedom Amendment

A NEW DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE I was inspired to use the original Declaration of Independence because the challenges we face today so closely and clearly parallel those set forth in the original Declaration. It is no coincidence the language with few modifications fits our present situation so accurately. It is time to declare our independence once again; a proud tradition in our democracy. In recent history Thomas Jefferson’s words, “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance,” have been misconstrued to focus outward to the international threats we will always face; ignoring Jefferson’s’ real intent to caution citizens to constant vigilance of their own government, requiring us at times to make a formal declaration of our independence in the face of government oppression. “We the People” must, from time to time, declare our right to continue the never-ending evolution of democracy, personal freedom, and liberty through time. A reminder, impossible to ignore, that “We the people” are still in charge. Unfortunately, the trend in recent history has been to curtail personal liberty, to systematically encroach upon the power of the individual citizen’s impact on the governance of the United States, our most precious liberty. It is to this singular focus this declaration is dedicated without regard to politics, policy, or philosophy; only to restore and establish without question that the power to determine the form, policies, and direction of the government of the United States shall forever remain in the hands of her citizens, standing equally under the rule of law, the highest law of the land, the Constitution of the United States of America. This declaration seeks to establish equality under the law and establish anew the principle that the power of government flows from all of our citizens to the government, that the government is accountable to each citizen in equal measure, and that we put our trust in the collective wisdom of our citizens to solve the problems we may face and to determine our course as a nation. When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for a people to redefine the political strictures which once gave them liberty and justice in order to reestablish the equality of all persons regardless of diversity or station; restoring the primacy of the individual’s right to freedom, dignity, self determination and the just protection of the rule of law. A decent respect to the opinions of humanity requires they should declare the causes which impel them to this action. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all people are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. To secure these rights, governments are instituted out of the common need for justice and respect for humanity, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, by altering the established design, or institution of a 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 surely dictates that governments long established should not be changed for light or transient causes; and accordingly all experience has shown that the people are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. Yet when a history 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. Such has been the patient sufferance of the American people, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their system of government; not by violence, but by the force of their right to do so under the Constitution. The history of the United States of America is manifest with this doctrine in times when injury, usurpation, and attempts to establish tyranny over this nation became intolerable. The current concentration of wealth and political power among a privileged few has created a functional oligarchy of wealth, and artificial constructs recognized as persons, wielding the economic power to rule without the consent of the governed. Today there are two elections for every office, two votes for every legislative action: Only one, the second, follows the Constitutional mandates of equality we recognize as the vote of the people or their duly elected representatives; one person, one vote. The first, preceding the general election, or legislative action, has replaced the time honored ideal of democratic rule by the people with the tyranny of one dollar, one vote. In this environment of immense wealth combined with the power to disseminate and control information, limited only by the financial resources of a favored candidate or policy, we the people have lost rightful control of our government. We the people must regain control, if this nation is to endure. To this end, I propose the 28th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America; The Freedom Amendment.

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