Flash mob at the parent brunch?
Everyone pick one part of the Declaration of Independence that you want to memorize and recite.
JUST ONE! EASY PEASY!
Then during the meal, we will start the flash mob and stand and recite wherever we are and it will rock!!!!
Sign up fast by calling, texting or writing in the comments, or your preferred paragraph will be claimed first.
1. When in the Course of human events, it
becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have
connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the
separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God
entitle them,
2. a decent respect to the opinions of
mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the
separation.
3. We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with
certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit
of Happiness.—
4. That to secure these rights, Governments
are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the
governed, --
5. 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.
6. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that
Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient
causes;
7. and accordingly all experience hath
shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable,
than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
8. 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.
9. Such has been the patient sufferance of
these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter
their former Systems of Government.
10.
In
every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most
humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated
injury.
11.
A [person]
whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant,
is unfit to be [over] a free people.
12.
Nor
have We been wanting in attentions to our [sic] brethren. We have warned them
from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable
jurisdiction over us.
13.
We
have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here.
We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured
them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which,
would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence.
14.
They
too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must,
therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold
them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
15.
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,
16.
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;
17.
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.
18.
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.
