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Happy Fourth of July weekend to my fellow GLP'ers and something to think about.

 
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Yep, Independence...

Presidents related to British royalty

This is a list of presidents of royal descent. Note that since all of these Presidents are related to English or Scottish monarchs, they are also all related to each other, though very distantly. Also note that the ancestry is from the most recent royal ancestor through their younger children who did not receive royal title or whose patents of nobility were not passed on because of rules of primogeniture.

* George Washington (descendant of Edward III of England)
* Thomas Jefferson (descendant of Edward III of England)
* James Madison (descendant of Edward I of England)
* James Monroe (descendant of Edward III of England)
* John Quincy Adams (descendant of Edward III of England)
* William Henry Harrison and his grandson, Benjamin Harrison (descendants of Edward I of England)
* Zachary Taylor (descendant of Edward I of England)
* Franklin Pierce (descendant of Henry I of England)
* Rutherford Hayes (descendant of David I of Scotland)
* Grover Cleveland (descendant of Edward I of England)
* Theodore Roosevelt (descendant of Edward III of England)
* William Taft (descendant of Edward I of England)
* Warren Harding (descendant of Ethelred II of England)
* Calvin Coolidge (descendant of Henry II of England)
* Herbert Hoover (descendant of John of England)
* Franklin Roosevelt (descendant of Edward III of England)
* Gerald Ford (descendant of Edward I of England)
* Jimmy Carter (descendant of Henry II of England)
* George H.W. Bush and his son, George W. Bush (descendants of Edward I of England)
* Barack Obama (descendant of Edward I of England and William the Lion of Scotland)

As a result, all of the listed people are direct descendants of Alfred the Great. All but two of them are also descended from William I of England with the exceptions of Rutherford Hayes and Warren Harding. It should be noted that most of these royal ancestors were born before the Black Death killed much of the population of Britain in 1349.

In addition, according to Genealogics and Roglo, HM Queen Elizabeth II is among the closest living relatives of George Washington, through their descent from Augustus Warner, Burgess of Virginia.
[edit] Presidents Related to Other Royalty

* Theodore Roosevelt & Franklin Roosevelt are related to the Rajahs of Sarawak


All Hail The Queen!!!

Obama, Bushes, Ford, Taft, Cleveland, Pierce, Taylor, Harrison, Madison are all descendants of King Edward I, also known as Edward Longshanks, the Hammer of the Scots...

The most vicious dictator ever...


The "queen" of England is NOT descended from the line of English kings and queens, although they'd like everyone to think they are...

She is "black nobility" which is what is REALLY controlling the world... That is where you will find TPTB and WHO is REALLY behind the NWO...

It's a ruse that the US Presidents are related to Kings of England.... just more smoke blown around... ahh... smoke and mirrors.....

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Not a ruse at all...It is well documented and proven...

George Washington was a direct descendant of King Edward III, Queen Elizabeth is the closest living relative of Washington...So yes, she IS a descendant of British Royalty...
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Yep, Independence...

Presidents related to British royalty

This is a list of presidents of royal descent. Note that since all of these Presidents are related to English or Scottish monarchs, they are also all related to each other, though very distantly. Also note that the ancestry is from the most recent royal ancestor through their younger children who did not receive royal title or whose patents of nobility were not passed on because of rules of primogeniture.

* George Washington (descendant of Edward III of England)
* Thomas Jefferson (descendant of Edward III of England)
* James Madison (descendant of Edward I of England)
* James Monroe (descendant of Edward III of England)
* John Quincy Adams (descendant of Edward III of England)
* William Henry Harrison and his grandson, Benjamin Harrison (descendants of Edward I of England)
* Zachary Taylor (descendant of Edward I of England)
* Franklin Pierce (descendant of Henry I of England)
* Rutherford Hayes (descendant of David I of Scotland)
* Grover Cleveland (descendant of Edward I of England)
* Theodore Roosevelt (descendant of Edward III of England)
* William Taft (descendant of Edward I of England)
* Warren Harding (descendant of Ethelred II of England)
* Calvin Coolidge (descendant of Henry II of England)
* Herbert Hoover (descendant of John of England)
* Franklin Roosevelt (descendant of Edward III of England)
* Gerald Ford (descendant of Edward I of England)
* Jimmy Carter (descendant of Henry II of England)
* George H.W. Bush and his son, George W. Bush (descendants of Edward I of England)
* Barack Obama (descendant of Edward I of England and William the Lion of Scotland)

As a result, all of the listed people are direct descendants of Alfred the Great. All but two of them are also descended from William I of England with the exceptions of Rutherford Hayes and Warren Harding. It should be noted that most of these royal ancestors were born before the Black Death killed much of the population of Britain in 1349.

In addition, according to Genealogics and Roglo, HM Queen Elizabeth II is among the closest living relatives of George Washington, through their descent from Augustus Warner, Burgess of Virginia.
[edit] Presidents Related to Other Royalty

* Theodore Roosevelt & Franklin Roosevelt are related to the Rajahs of Sarawak


All Hail The Queen!!!

Obama, Bushes, Ford, Taft, Cleveland, Pierce, Taylor, Harrison, Madison are all descendants of King Edward I, also known as Edward Longshanks, the Hammer of the Scots...

The most vicious dictator ever...


The "queen" of England is NOT descended from the line of English kings and queens, although they'd like everyone to think they are...

She is "black nobility" which is what is REALLY controlling the world... That is where you will find TPTB and WHO is REALLY behind the NWO...

It's a ruse that the US Presidents are related to Kings of England.... just more smoke blown around... ahh... smoke and mirrors.....

[link to www.godlikeproductions.com]


Not a ruse at all...It is well documented and proven...

George Washington was a direct descendant of King Edward III, Queen Elizabeth is the closest living relative of Washington...So yes, she IS a descendant of British Royalty...
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NO. QEII is GERMAN.
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May GOD shed HIS grace on thee. May we all return to the roots and love of GOD that made the U. S. the best! Happy 4TH to all.
If you break my wings, I will just find a cloud and learn to fly again. The Lord will catch you when you fall or teach you to fly! May the footprints I leave lead you to BELIEVE.
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NO. QEII is GERMAN.
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NO! REPTILLIAN!!
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hope everyone in the US is having a nice 4th july :)
What I find fantastic is any notion that there are answers beyond the realm of science. The answers are there. You just have to know where to look.

We're all gonna die. The only question is when & how you check out. Do you want it on your feet? Or on your knees... begging?! I ain't much for begging! Nobody ever gave me nothing!
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p0tty till u p00p...or something like that... s226
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Too bad America isn't free anymore but at least it's a good day to look at pretty designs in the sky.
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NO. QEII is GERMAN.
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NO! REPTILLIAN!!
...
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That too...

All the ruling class serves the Serpent/Beast... and comes from It.

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^^^^^^painting of QEI with snake...
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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.

Border Security????

Gulf Leak?????



I weep for my Nation.
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He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass 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.

God Bless America.
Thanks and a Happy 4th.
peace
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Hello to everyone on GLP and have a happy 4th.

Thank you to Spikegirl for posting this thread.

I'm a direct descendent of one of the signers of the Declaeation of Independance.....Olive Wolcott from Conn.

I would say that my ancestors today are rolling in thier graves. They gave thier lives and all to make us FREE and to see we paid no tax. They also served under Washington when all was said and done.

I have been holding the dream of real freedom for more than 20 years. I don't pay taxes. And this is why....

Did you know that is how everyone gives up thier freedom when... You sign away your rights on that tax form! If everyone put down thier pens and refused to sign it over to the goverment it would be back in our hands. No guns no action than a pen. It's that simple just think they would have no money to do the stupid things they do. We the people could rule again the way we should.

May God shed his GRACE on thee,

Kathie
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Good post!
The real celebration was when then wrote the constitution after the war was finally over and they had finally ran off King Georges army.
The US was in chaos with out the Constitution and now we have people in the white house that ignore it.
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In Louisiana they want your BLOOD

'No Refusal' during the July 4th weekend

Those who refuse a breath test will be forced to submit to a blood screening.

"Once the driver refuses, we are prepared to have a search warrant issued, and a court order, ordering the driver to submit to a blood test, and we will have registered nurses at the lockup who are there to draw the blood," said Jefferson Parish District Attorney Paul Connick.

Connick said from early Friday evening until just before midnight Monday, magistrates and nurses will be on duty, nonstop.
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Greetings,

To the family of Marine Cpl. Jacob C. Leicht.

I pray God blesses you on this day.

Regards

JimmyK
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Thanks for that! If reading the declaration of independance does not make you see where we stand at this very moment as fellow citizens under God,then you are lost. Our president is guilty of alot of the same things the British rule were guilty of!!!!!!!!!!!! Hello? Anybody feel the same? Once again good job, its time for all good men to stand up and come to the aid of their country!!!!!!!! Fuck Obama and Biden, they are all guilty of treason in the biggest way!!!!!
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Thanks for that! If reading the declaration of independance does not make you see where we stand at this very moment as fellow citizens under God,then you are lost. Our president is guilty of alot of the same things the British rule were guilty of!!!!!!!!!!!! Hello? Anybody feel the same? Once again good job, its time for all good men to stand up and come to the aid of their country!!!!!!!! Fuck Obama and Biden, they are all guilty of treason in the biggest way!!!!!
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+100
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Hello to everyone on GLP and have a happy 4th.

Thank you to Spikegirl for posting this thread.

I'm a direct descendent of one of the signers of the Declaeation of Independance.....Olive Wolcott from Conn.

I would say that my ancestors today are rolling in thier graves. They gave thier lives and all to make us FREE and to see we paid no tax. They also served under Washington when all was said and done.

I have been holding the dream of real freedom for more than 20 years. I don't pay taxes. And this is why....

Did you know that is how everyone gives up thier freedom when... You sign away your rights on that tax form! If everyone put down thier pens and refused to sign it over to the goverment it would be back in our hands. No guns no action than a pen. It's that simple just think they would have no money to do the stupid things they do. We the people could rule again the way we should.

May God shed his GRACE on thee,

Kathie
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Great post, Kathie. You must be so proud of your ancestors, yet saddened at how things have turned out. I have watched some of the History of US on the History Channel and marvel at how patriotic and willing to give everything up the Founding Fathers and original Americans were. What has happened to us? Have we gotten too complacent? Something has to give. Both the president and congress have spectacularly low approval ratings and not just for this administration. It's like being in an abusive relationship but not having the strength to leave. We need to take our country back, I just don't know how. Your idea sounds good, but unless EVERYONE does it at the same time, the few who do will just have legal problems with the IRS.

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“Are they called sand scripts because they were written on tablets of sand?”
(George Noory to Michael Cremo, referring to the Sanskrit language.)

"Why do they call it the Big Bang? Was it loud?"
George Noory to guest, Dr. Piccioni on 8/12/09's show.


"Do you think asteroids have a brain and know which side of the planet to crash into?"
(George Noory)


Everybody knows the war is over. Everybody knows the bad guys won.-Leonard Cohen

Send lawyers, guns and money. The shit has hit the fan.-Warren Zevon
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Greetings,

To the family of Marine Cpl. Jacob C. Leicht.

I pray God blesses you on this day.

Regards

JimmyK
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We should all thank our service men and women for their sacrifices. The sad thing is, you don't even see anything about the war televised or see when our soldiers are brought home in coffins. It's shameful. But hopefully enough of us are waking up.
“Are they called sand scripts because they were written on tablets of sand?”
(George Noory to Michael Cremo, referring to the Sanskrit language.)

"Why do they call it the Big Bang? Was it loud?"
George Noory to guest, Dr. Piccioni on 8/12/09's show.


"Do you think asteroids have a brain and know which side of the planet to crash into?"
(George Noory)


Everybody knows the war is over. Everybody knows the bad guys won.-Leonard Cohen

Send lawyers, guns and money. The shit has hit the fan.-Warren Zevon
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Not until the american people can stop the banksters from running and controling the usa will the people of the usa have any chance at all for real freedom.

The banksters who run the usa through thier puppets the bought off politicans who they've selected make all the totaliarian laws in the usa now.
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Greetings,

To the family of Marine Cpl. Jacob C. Leicht.

I pray God blesses you on this day.

Regards

JimmyK

We should all thank our service men and women for their sacrifices. The sad thing is, you don't even see anything about the war televised or see when our soldiers are brought home in coffins. It's shameful. But hopefully enough of us are waking up.
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And to my son fighting in Baghdad, may he return safely to me very soon. flag waver
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Greetings,

To the family of Marine Cpl. Jacob C. Leicht.

I pray God blesses you on this day.

Regards

JimmyK

We should all thank our service men and women for their sacrifices. The sad thing is, you don't even see anything about the war televised or see when our soldiers are brought home in coffins. It's shameful. But hopefully enough of us are waking up.
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The only problem with that is the usa military is controlled by elites who use the usa military as thier personal mercenary army.
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this goes out to all my bros who served, and those who paid the ultimate price for our frredom




Absolutely.
hf
BTW, I tried to bring your smilie to life, but it is not the saluting soldier smilie. It was some kind of white glove that looked like the Hamburger Helper giving the finger.
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oh that's definitely not the one I wanted, lol. I don't take lightly the American Dream that was forged in blood upon the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Now, we have not always upheld the American Dream, even at our founding, but it has always been our goal to strive for. And I can't thing of a nobler goal to have, even if we will never see a true "perfection" of it. But then again, as someone a lot wiser than me once said "A man's reach must exceed his grasp, else what's a heaven for". So I will always keep the American dream close to my heart.
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"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 Governmen"

Still think we are represented?



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Wake up people!!!!
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Greetings,

To the family of Marine Cpl. Jacob C. Leicht.

I pray God blesses you on this day.

Regards

JimmyK

We should all thank our service men and women for their sacrifices. The sad thing is, you don't even see anything about the war televised or see when our soldiers are brought home in coffins. It's shameful. But hopefully enough of us are waking up.
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Greetings,

Well I was just reflecting on it being the 4th of July and that fact that is the young mans birthday. He was the 1,000th American Serviceman killed in Afghanistan.

My prayer is that the war ends and they get to come home. I have personal convictions which opposes war.

Today is a day of remembrance on a scale I cannot touch as personal losses are counted by those closest to them in ways that have meaning to them.

Regards

Jimmy
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Freedom is ending the slavery of the zionist/vatican central banking cartel.

End the federal reserve.

End dual citizenship holders from holding any public office or appointment.
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No, not a shill.
Agents also live in the US and enjoy their privileges afforded to them by freedom...
Happy 4th everyone, CIA, NSA, MIB & etc included.
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I Loved that flag video! I also love my country!
birthday to my country! flag waver
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vendetta

Freedom is ending the slavery of the zionist/vatican central banking cartel.

End the federal reserve.

End dual citizenship holders from holding any public office or appointment.
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God, do people even get it?
"The Oil disaster is Britains retaliation for the Boston Tea party = FACT. It can be proved.
By the way, ever read the declaration of Independence? LOL. Several people have posted it today. It is radical LOL. Those people were nuts, but they did produce the strongest nation ever to exist in the world. The crap with the natives was stupid, whereas the natives would have been better ALLIES than enemies (and many were in the 1700s) However, go to a reservation and get taken in by a family and see if you don't get all your needs met.
Funny how the world works.
Silence is golden.
Wars are not won by weapons nor by words. The silent things, the things unseen are the power. BP is destroying nature because nature is silent for the most part, and is their enemy. British people, the Elves, Faes, and Stonehenge and all that are not the problem. It is the "royal" bull shit. Their endeavor shall not succeed. It shall bite their arse very bad.."

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:happyfourt:

Below is The Declaration of Independence. It is the reason we celebrate the Fourth.

As I read these words written so long ago, I get tears in my eyes. Tears for what my country was when these words were written, and tears for what my country has become.

If you take a few moments to read the words, you can plainly see that the current, as well as the past few administrations have replaced King George the Third. Two hundred and thirty four years ago, we actually the balls to do something about it.


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 harass 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 benefit 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 British 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.

— John Hancock

New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
[link to www.ushistory.org]
 Quoting: Spikegirl

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