What Does the Declaration of Independence Really Mean?

NEW ORLEANS, LA. – The only part of the Declaration of Independence that meant anything to the inhabitants of these colonies in 1776 were the 37 charges against that tyrant king.

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Mike: You know, I’m going to stop saying, I’m just going to not say Ron Paul foreign policy anymore. I’m just going to say George Washington foreign policy. How about that? I’m just going to say Thomas Jefferson foreign policy. I’m just going to say James Madison foreign policy. I’m just going to say James Monroe foreign policy. Because that’s what it is. You people act as though this has been created out of whole cloth. You act as though this Ron Paul guy just materialized out of thin air and one day woke up and said, You know, I think I can take this country down by arguing against its military empire.

Your Founding Fathers argued against a military empire. Oh, but were not supposed to say that. No, were going to go back and find obscure quotes or take things out of context that one Founder may have said in some obscure letter. And then were going to bring that forward 210 years. See? See? They wanted to invade. See, see, they were Neocons, too. See? See? I can even go further than that with this. Since you brought it up. And Ive got to take a time out here because I want to get Jack on. So were going to I’m going to say what Ive got to say time out, Jack Hunter, the one and only Southern Avenger, on hold right now. Jack, stay with me for a minute, buddy say something here to the audience here and to any new listeners.

There was a division in republican thought, conservative thought, around about the 1940s, on into the 1950s. And then once it made its way into academia, certain professors. And then when citizens of Libtardia looked at it, went, Hey, we can use this, too, man, it became common knowledge today. But its not common knowledge. And here is where the dividing line is. And I can lay this out for you in one minute, and you can understand this. And if you want to see the story unfold in front of your eyes from the actual text of letters and debates, get my movie, The Road to Independence, on DVD.

Having said that, this idea, this theorem was cooked up in the middle of the last century that, why, it was laying there in front of us all along. For 150, 170 years it lay dormant. But there it was. Thomas Jefferson set us on a mission. Why, he set us on a mission to bring democracy to the world, to bring and defend the establishment of democracy and American-style governments to the world. And people believed this. Why do you think it is that the most popular, most oft-cited phrase of the Declaration of Independence is this gobbledy-gook, which is nothing more than Preamble mishmash, about all men being created equal? They’re not created, were not created equal. This amounts to superstition here. Of course were not created equal. And that’s not how Jefferson meant it in 1776. And he borrowed the line from George Mason. And I know, because I read Masons work and his biography written by his daughter, that that’s not how Mason meant it. But that’s the line they love to quote.

The only part of the Declaration of Independence that meant anything to the inhabitants of these colonies in 1776 were the 37 charges against that tyrant king, and then was the statement of legal fact that these united colonies were and of right ought to be free and independent states, absolved of all political connection to the crown of Great Britain, and all of it should be totally dissolved. And those free and independent states, they were able to do all things that states may of right do. They could conclude and contract peace alliances, conduct war, trade, all the things that states may of right that’s the legal part of it. That’s what the Declaration of Independence means. That’s all it means.

This romantic, flowery, mythological crap is whats given rise to all of these adventures in foreign policy, adventures in nation building, adventures in eradicating racism, and adventures in eradicating Americanism, and adventures in eradicating our devotion to our God and what have you, and every other thing that we’ve undertaken here, and they’ll never end, eradicating poverty and what have you. All of it is what M.E. Bradford, the great historian, called it was a teleocratic shift. And if you don’t know what that is, its hard for me to explain that in a radio show. You have to study a little bit of Greek history.

But the Founders understood the Constitution and their state legislatures, especially the Constitution, as a singular instrument to limit the power that they had granted and control the power that they had granted to the central government. That’s it. That’s all they wanted it to do. It wasn’t set out as a charter. It wasn’t an adventure. Nothing of the sort. The people governed themselves in their communities and their states. That’s really how it happened. Seriously, really. And the historical record is unapproachable on this. It is irrevocable, and it is clear on this. So all of what most of you have learned and now accept as biblical founding canon is a pile of horse you-know-what.

So instead of blindly following the third-grade history teacher that misled you down the road, open your eyes. You know, the best way to do this is not to read somebody’s 2012 interpretation of all this. Go back to the source documents and read them for yourself. I challenge you. The proceedings of the entire Continental Congress are published at the Library of Congress. They’ve even been taken from their long form, written with a quill pen, and translated into digital text. Go read them. Convince yourself.

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TheKingDude

Host of the Mike Church Show on The Veritas Radio Network's CRUSADE Channel & Founder of the Veritas Radio Network. Formerly, of Sirius/XM's Patriot channel 125. The show began in March of 2003 exclusively on Sirius and remains "the longest running radio talk show in satellite radio history".

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