Happy Birthday America

[Bucndoe]

Birth of a nation and preservation of a nation

Edited July 4, 2019 by Bucndoe

[RPK0620]

                       GOD BLESS AMERICA

I start my 18th year of retirement today and truly do celebrate Independence Day !

And I am looking forward to tonights celebration from Washington particularly with the military theme.

 

[Live to Hunt]

Happy 4th everyone god bless this great country. Still the best there is. 

[Merkel]

Happy 4th everyone. God bless the US! 

[Bones]

Happy 4th 

[Jim_]

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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, 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.

 

[mightyhunter]

Happy 4th of July everyone!

[Bonefreak]

U.S.A.!!!!

U.S.A!!!!

U.S.A.!!!

[Swamprat]

[Stewey]

Happy 4th of July to everyone, god bless America and you and your family 

[BHC]

Happy birthday America 

[yoda4x4]

Happy birthday to the greatest country in the world!

David

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[Lunatic]

21 hours ago, Swamprat said:

Now that's the way to celebrate!!

The actual vote for independence took place on July 2nd, not 4th., and it took until January of  1777 for all involve to sign it

[stratocaster]

On 7/4/2019 at 11:42 AM, Swamprat said:

If the signers of the Declaration had this image back then and put up flyers stating "This is what we are fighting for", the Revolution would have been a lot shorter in length and the Redcoats would have switched sides and the French would have sailed over a lot sooner. 

[stratocaster]

On 7/4/2019 at 9:43 AM, Live to Hunt said:

Happy 4th everyone god bless this great country. Still the best there is. 

Well said.  Thank you to you and your brothers and all those who defend and uphold our laws to keep us free. 

"If there is a lesson in all of this it is that our Constitution is neither a self-actuating nor a self-correcting document. It requires the constant attention and devotion of all citizens. There is a story, often told, that upon exiting the Constitutional Convention Benjamin Franklin was approached by a group of citizens asking what sort of government the delegates had created. His answer was: "A republic, if you can keep it." The brevity of that response should not cause us to under-value its essential meaning: democratic republics are not merely founded upon the consent of the people, they are also absolutely dependent upon the active and informed involvement of the people for their continued good health."

We are a republic, not a democracy as envisioned by those who wish to consolidate power within the government instead of having the consent of the governed. 

Alexis De Toqueville: As “Democracy in America” revealed, Tocqueville believed that equality was the great political and social idea of his era, and he thought that the United States offered the most advanced example of equality in action. He admired American individualism but warned that a society of individuals can easily become atomized and paradoxically uniform when “every citizen, being assimilated to all the rest, is lost in the crowd.” He felt that a society of individuals lacked the intermediate social structures—such as those provided by traditional hierarchies—to mediate relations with the state. The result could be a democratic “tyranny of the majority” in which individual rights were compromised.<<<< Let us all commit ourselves to keep this from becoming reality.