THE DECLARATION of
INDEPENDENCE:
A Transcription
and
THE CONSTITUTION of UNITED STATES of 1787.
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certain points of history of USA as The Declaration of Independence:
a Transcription and The Constitution of the United States, two days
after its signing, the Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser
printed the entire text of the Constitution in its issue dated Wednesday,
September 19, 1787. Because with the below movement determines
to him new chairman of
USA
or certifies his love in the Constitution and in the History.
Barack Obama the elected chairman of USA using
a train will symbolically follow the same itinerary that had made in 1864
Abraam Lincoln in order to it is put
under oath, afterwards his reelection. His train will be charged with
the hopes of the 65% of American women that voted Barack Obama, this
symbolic travel of elected chairman of USA with the end of way of train
from Philadelphia up to Washington, it will undertake his duties as
the new President of USA.
For that reason all
English speaking Greek and emigrant Greeks in the all world can study
our article of November 2008 on a movement of other chairman of
USA of W. J.
Clinton who friendlily thinking for Greece,
under title
FROM the REMARKS ON SIGNING by W. J. CLINTON, the GREEK INDEPENDENCE DAY
PROCLAMATION, on 25 MARCH 1993. and
our articles of November 2008 that concerns election of
Barack Obama; in the Greek under the titles .
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ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ.
Below we will present to
you above reported The Declaration of Independence: A Transcription
and the Constitution of the
United States of 1787.
When the last dutiful &
humble petition from Congress received no other Answer than declaring us
Rebels, and out of the King’s protection, I from that Moment
look’d forward to a Revolution & Independence,
as the only means of Salvation; and will risque
the last Penny of my Fortune, & the last Drop of my Blood upon the Issue.
George
Mason , October 2 1778
In 1761, fifteen years
before the United States of America burst onto the world stage with the
Declaration of Independence, the American colonists were loyal British
subjects who celebrated the coronation of their new King, George III. The
colonies that stretched from present-day Maine to Georgia were distinctly
English in character although they had been settled by Scots, Welsh, Irish,
Dutch, Swedes, Finns, Africans, French, Germans, and Swiss, as well as
English.
As English men and women,
the American colonists were heirs to the thirteenth-century English
document, the Magna Carta, which established the
principles that no one is above the law (not even the King), and that no one
can take away certain rights. So in 1763, when the King began to assert his
authority over the colonies to make them share the cost of the Seven Years'
War England had just fought and won, the English colonists protested by
invoking their rights as free men and loyal subjects. It was only after a
decade of repeated efforts on the part of the colonists to defend their
rights that they resorted to armed conflict and, eventually, to the
unthinkable–separation from the motherland.
A
Proclamation by the King for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition, August 23,
1775
By the spring of 1775,
peaceful protest gave way to armed conflict at Lexington and Concord.
Ignoring one last, futile plea for peace in a message known as the Olive
Branch Petition, the King proclaimed in this document that the colonies
stood in open rebellion to his authority and were subject to severe penalty,
as was any British subject who failed to report the knowledge of rebellion
or conspiracy. This document literally transformed loyal subjects into
traitorous rebels.
National
Archives, Records of the Continental and Confederation Congresses and the
Constitutional Convention
Pulling
Down the Statue of George III at Bowling Green in
Lower Manhattan, oil painting (reproduction) by William
Walcutt, 1857
After hearing the news
about independence on July 9, 1776, people in New York City celebrated by
pulling down a statue of the King they had come to view as a tyrant.
Courtesy
of Lafayette College Art Collection Easton, Pennsylvania
THE
DECLARATION of INDEPENDENCE:
A
Transcription
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The
unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
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, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind
requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the
separation.
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.--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.
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. The history of the present
King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all
having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these
States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent
to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his
Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless
suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so
suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass
other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those
people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a
right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together
legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the
depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them
into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved
Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his
invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long
time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the
Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People
at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to
all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has
endeavoured to prevent the population of these
States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of
Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither,
and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the
Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing
Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges
dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount
and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude
of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to
harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in
times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render
the Military independent of and superior to the Civil
power.
He has combined with
others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and
unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended
Legislation:
For
Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a
mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the
Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade
with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us
without our Consent:
For depriving us in many
cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond
Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free
System of English Laws in a neighbouring
Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary
government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an
example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these
Colonies:
For taking away our
Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the
Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own
Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested
with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated
Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War
against us.
He has plundered our seas,
ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time
transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to
compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun
with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most
barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our
fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their
Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to
fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic
insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to
bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages,
whose known rule of warfare, is an
undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
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. A Prince whose character is thus
marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a
free people.
Nor have
We been wanting in attentions to our
Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time
to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable
jurisdiction over us. 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. 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.
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.
The 56 signatures on the
Declaration appear in the positions indicated:
Sources:
1.
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html
2.
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/charters_of_freedom_1.html#
The 13
Colonies
From the first
settlement at
Jamestown
in 1607 early America's colonies enjoyed a slow but steady growth. Most of
the colonies' population — approximately 2,500,000 by 1775 — lived east of
the Allegheny Mountains. A majority of the colonists were English or of
English descent. Nearly all spoke English. Second in numbers were the
Germans in Pennsylvania, the Dutch in New York, and the Irish and
Scotch-Irish who had settled to some extent throughout all of the colonies.
Enlargement: Map of the 13 Colonies
A witty Frenchman at the
time observed that the people of England reminded him of a barrel of their
own beer — froth on the top, dregs at the bottom, but clear and sound in the
middle. It was a fact that the greater part of the emigrants who settled
early America were from that energetic, industrious middle-class. As such,
none of the colonies had a titled aristocracy holding land. The colonies had
men of intelligence and wealth, but no lords. Learned
and influential clergymen, but no bishops.
The
original thirteen colonies were
Connecticut,
Delaware,
Georgia,
Maryland,
Massachusetts,
New Hampshire,
New Jersey,
New
York,
North Carolina,
South Carolina,
Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island
and
Virginia.
Maps
of Early America
Below
the visitors - readers of
Apodimos.com can see the
growth of also Maps of Early
America
with a view to have a
complete opinion of that season, for they know better the history of
USA
ü
The Siege of Charlestown
ü
The Battle of Saratoga
ü
The Battle of Bunker Hill
ü
Boston and its Environs - Circa 1800
ü
The Siege of Quebec
ü
The Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown
ü
Gen. Washington's Battle Engagements in 1776
ü
North America - 1797
ü
The 13 Colonies
ü
The United States — at the Peace Treaty of 1783
ü
The Northwest Territory — 1787
ü
The United States in 1800
ü
The U.S. in 1803 - After The Louisiana Purchase
ü
English Colonies Before 1763
ü
First Settlements On Eastern Coast of North
America
ü
The United States in 1812
ü
City of New Amsterdam (NY) in 1660
ü
Frontier Line of The Colonies in 1774
Sources:
1.
http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/maps/13colonies/
2.
http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/maps/
THE
CONSTITUTION of UNITED STATES of 1787
Delegates to the
Constitutional Convention signed the Constitution in Philadelphia on
September 17, 1787. The fifty-five delegates who signed this monumental
political document were the best minds of the Colonies at the time. The
Constitution was forwarded to the Congress and the following year was
ratified by conventions in nine states, and made the law of the land.
Two days after its
signing, the Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser printed the entire
text of the Constitution in its issue dated Wednesday, September 19,
1787. John Dunlap and David C. Claypoole were
publishers of the Packet at the time. Both men alternated as official
printers to the Continental Congress.
It must be pointed out
that the original parchment document on which the Constitution was written
was in the custody of the Department of State. Of necessity it
traveled with the federal government from New York to Philadelphia and,
finally, to Washington. In order to allow citizens in all parts of the
Republic to read the Constitution, its entire text was printed in the
newspapers of the day.
In similar fashion....here
is an exact-size reproduction of the first public printing of the U.S.
Constitution as it appeared in the September 19, 1787 issue of the
Pennsylvania Packet.
Below
the visitors - readers of
Apodimos.com can see the
A Text Version of the United States
Constitution is also available
Sources:
http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/freedom/constitution/
We believe
that all English speaking Greek and emigrant Greeks in the all world,
visitors - readers of
Apodimos.com, they remained satisfied for the historical elements
that we presented for the History of
USA
because Barack Obama will prove in the all world as new
44th President of
USA
that he will be
First.
