Declaration of Restitution

While re-reading the Declaration of Independence it became painfully clear that many of abuses of liberties that We the People of the United States of America are enduring under the current administration are similar, if not the same, as the grievances listed in that declaration. Below is the text of the original declaration with only minor modifications to address our current situation. Our Founding Fathers were willing to pledge their Lives, Fortunes and sacred Honor to fight for our God given rights and yet this generation is letting those same rights slip away. What are you willing to do about it? Are you willing to sign a new Declaration?

Declaration of Restitution

The Declaration of We the People of the United States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to redress 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 demand the restitution of their liberties.

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 reestablish the noble intent and protections built into the structure of that long established Government or throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Such has been the patient sufferance these states; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to reestablish their former Systems of Government. The history of the standing President of the United States of America 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, as demonstrated by his implementation of the Dream Act by presidential fiat and his waiver of the work requirements for welfare, thereby failing to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed”.

• He has forbidden Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, as demonstrated by his attempted blockage of immigration laws, and his refusal of federal support in the local execution of those laws. He joined with foreign nations against his own constituents in the effort.  

• He directed the misuse of a legislative process (reconciliation) to limit debate of the Senate on the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare .

• He has made “recess” appointments while the Senate was conducting “pro forma” sessions. 

• He has erected a multitude of New Offices, as demonstrated by the establishment of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau which gives unprecedented regulatory power to a board whose director is not accountable to Congress. He has appointed approximately three dozen czars who are also unaccountable to Congress.

• He has restricted our religious liberties. 

• He has pitted American against American in the advancement of his own political agenda. 

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 elected brethren. We have warned them from time to time of their attempts to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. 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. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice.

We, therefore, the People of the united States of America, 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 this country, solemnly publish and declare, that these abuses of power be rectified. 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.

Mark Bezanis