The Patriot Page, is a look at the founding
documents of our Country. These documents tell a story, the story of how we became the United States of America; Blessed by
God to be an example to the rest of the world.
Read and study these documents and gain an understanding
of how we became a Nation.
For as Ronald Reagan once stated "If we ever forget that
we are One Nation Under God, the we will be One Nation Gone Under."
Declaration of Independence
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.
Click on the link below to see the entire Declaration of Independence
Declaration of Independence
Common Sense
by Thomas Paine
addressed
to the inhabitants of America on the following interesting subjects:
Introduction
Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not YET sufficiently
fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance
of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more
converts than reason.
As a long and violent abuse of power, is generally the Means of calling
the right of it in question (and in Matters too which might never have been thought of, had not the Sufferers been aggravated
into the inquiry) and as the King of England hath undertaken in his OWN RIGHT, to support the Parliament in what he calls
THEIRS, and as the good people of this country are grievously oppressed by the combination, they have an undoubted privilege
to inquire into the pretensions of both, and equally to reject the usurpation of either.
In
the following sheets, the author hath studiously avoided every thing which is personal among ourselves. Compliments as well
as censure to individuals make no part thereof. The wise, and the worthy, need not the triumph of a pamphlet; and those whose
sentiments are injudicious, or unfriendly, will cease of themselves unless too much pains are bestowed upon their conversion.
The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Many circumstances hath,
and will arise, which are not local, but universal, and through which the principles of all Lovers of Mankind are affected,
and in the Event of which, their Affections are interested. The laying a Country desolate with Fire and Sword, declaring War
against the natural rights of all Mankind, and extirpating the Defenders thereof from the Face of the Earth, is the Concern
of every Man to whom Nature hath given the Power of feeling; of which Class, regardless of Party Censure, is the AUTHOR.
Click on the link below to see the entire book from Thomas Paine.
Common Sense
