CPR Lifeline Advisory - Thursday - 7/6/2023
Jefferson's original Declaration of Independence & Ownership of Independence
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CPR Lifeline Advisory - Thursday - 7/6/2023
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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…
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This past Tuesday, the population was celebrating our nation’s birthday. Americans should still be grateful that we enjoy freedom despite our flagrant abuse of freedom, or our ignoring the flagrant abuse of freedom by those whom we deem or designate as “leaders” of our society.
Despite the wonderful opportunities to still celebrate our freedom, many Americans have not yet come to the realization of how precious it truly is. Simply put: Freedom has never been free. The Christian world recognizes that the Son of God paid for our freedom with his very life. Americans must come to realize that the founding generation paid for our freedom with their blood. It is truly a tough realization to ponder, but many deep realizations need to be faced in this time.
This edition of our CPR - Lifeline Advisory takes up a deeper dive into the realistic perspectives of two of those Founders. We offer Thomas Jefferson’s original unedited draft of the Declaration of Independence. For those who history-challenged individuals, this draft was edited nearly 86 times before it became the official document we recognize today.
Unfortunately, most Americans may only kn ow a few parts of the Declaration because it is no longer examined by students as a relevant document – mainly due to the secular-humanists we gave authority to control U.S. schools and the system of education in the nation. If one does not believe in God, how can that individual believe in God-given rights? Thus, why would they teach such ridiculous thought? Please read Jefferson’s original draft – you get to know not only his perspective, but vicariously through Jefferson’s words, one can catch a glimpse of the why behind the War for American Independence.
The second message is from John Adams in a letter he excitedly wrote to Abigail sharing the incredible news that the Continental Congress voted to declare Independence. In his message there is much to see through his eyes as well. He understood that those brave and brilliant men of Congress had opened a door that would bring upon them tremendous suffering, hardship, as well as death. It did, but they had they had ...it in their “power to begin the world all over again” according to Thomas Paine as he wrote in his provocative Common Sense:
We have it in our power to begin the world all over again. A situation similar to the present, hath not happened since the days of Noah until now. The birth-day of a new world is at hand, and a race of men perhaps as numerous as all Europe contains, are to receive their portion of freedom from the event of a few months.
History-challenged individuals have their own reasons for remaining with little knowledge of real history, as opposed to Hollywood versions of history, or revisionist, ideology-driven narratives of the secular humanists who may have a hard time confronting and digesting the truth. Ignorance of genuine history is not an excuse for remaining silent in the face of evil, or remaining inactive or non-committal as evil marches across the landscape.
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Jefferson's "original Rough draught" of the Declaration of Independence
A Declaration of the Representatives of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in General Congress assembled.
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for a people to advance from that subordination in which they have hitherto remained, & to assume among the powers of the earth the equal & independant station to which the laws of nature & 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 change.
We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independant, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent & inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these ends, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government shall become destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, & to institute new government, laying it's foundation on such principles & organising it's powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety & happiness. prudence indeed will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light & 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 & usurpations, begun at a distinguished period, & pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to subject them to arbitrary power, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government & to provide new guards for their future security. such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; & such is now the necessity which constrains them to expunge their former systems of government. the history of his present majesty, is a history of unremitting injuries and usurpations, among which no one fact stands single or solitary to contradict the uniform tenor of the rest, all of which have in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. to prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world, for the truth of which we pledge a faith yet unsullied by falsehood.
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 & pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has neglected utterly to attend to them.
he has refused to pass other laws for the accomodation of large districts of people unless those people would relinquish the right of representation, a right inestimable to them, formidable to tyrants alone:
he has dissolved Representative houses repeatedly & continually, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people:
he has refused for a long space of time 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, & convulsions within:
he has endeavored 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; & raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands:
he has suffered the administration of justice totally to cease in some of these colonies, refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers:
he has made our judges dependant on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and amount of their salaries:
he has erected a multitude of new offices by a self-assumed power, & sent hither swarms of officers to harrass our people & eat out their substance:
he has kept among us in times of peace standing armies & ships of war:
he has affected to render the military, independant of & superior to the civil power:
he has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitutions and unacknoleged by our laws; giving his assent to their pretended acts of legislation, for quartering large bodies of armed troops among us;
for protecting them by a mock-trial from punishment for any murders 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 of the benefits of trial by jury;
for transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offences: for taking away our charters, & altering fundamentally the forms of our governments;
for suspending our own legislatures & declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever:
he has abdicated government here, withdrawing his governors, & declaring us out of his allegiance & protection:
he has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns & destroyed the lives of our people:
he is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation & tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty & perfidy unworthy the head of a civilized nation:
he has endeavored 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, & conditions of existence:
he has incited treasonable insurrections in our fellow-subjects, with the allurements of forfeiture & confiscation of our property:
he has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. this piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce: and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, & murdering the people upon whom he also obtruded them; thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another.
in every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms; our repeated petitions have been answered 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 people who mean to be free. future ages will scarce believe that the hardiness of one man, adventured within the short compass of 12 years only, on so many acts of tyranny without a mask, over a people fostered & fixed in principles of liberty.
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 a jurisdiction over these our states. we have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration & settlement here, no one of which could warrant so strange a pretension: that these were effected at the expence of our own blood & treasure, unassisted by the wealth or the strength of Great Britain: that in constituting indeed our several forms of government, we had adopted one common king, thereby laying a foundation for perpetual league & amity with them: but that submission to their parliament was no part of our constitution, nor ever in idea, if history may be credited: and we appealed to their native justice & magnanimity, as well as to the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations which were likely to interrupt our correspondence & connection. they too have been deaf to the voice of justice & of consanguinity, & when occasions have been given them, by the regular course of their laws, of removing from their councils the disturbers of our harmony, they have by their free election re-established them in power. at this very time too they are permitting their chief magistrate to send over not only soldiers of our common blood, but Scotch & foreign mercenaries to invade & deluge us in blood. these facts have given the last stab to agonizing affection, and manly spirit bids us to renounce for ever these unfeeling brethren. we must endeavor to forget our former love for them, and to hold them as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends. we might have been a free & great people together; but a communication of grandeur & of freedom it seems is below their dignity. be it so, since they will have it: the road to glory & happiness is open to us too; we will climb it in a separate state, and acquiesce in the necessity which pronounces our everlasting Adieu!
We therefore the representatives of the United States of America in General Congress assembled do, in the name & by authority of the good people of these states, reject and renounce a11 allegiance & subjection to the kings of Great Britain & all others who may hereafter claim by, through, or under them; we utterly dissolve & break off a11 political connection which may have heretofore subsisted between us & the people or parliament of Great Britain; and finally we do assert and declare these a colonies to be free and independant states, and that as free & independant states they shall hereafter have power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, & to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, & our sacred honour.
John Adams to Abigail Adams, 3 July 1776
Philadelphia July 3d. 1776
Had a Declaration of Independency been made seven Months ago, it would have been attended with many great and glorious Effects. . . .1 We might before this Hour, have formed Alliances with foreign States.—We should have mastered Quebec and been in Possession of Canada. . . . You will perhaps wonder, how such a Declaration would have influenced our Affairs, in Canada, but if I could write with Freedom I could easily convince you, that it would, and explain to you the manner how.—Many Gentlemen in high Stations and of great Influence have been duped, by the ministerial Bubble of Commissioners to treat. . . . And in real, sincere Expectation of this Event, which they so fondly wished, they have been slow and languid, in promoting Measures for the Reduction of that Province. Others there are in the Colonies who really wished that our Enterprise in Canada would be defeated, that the Colonies might be brought into Danger and Distress between two Fires, and be thus induced to submit. Others really wished to defeat the Expedition to Canada, lest the Conquest of it, should elevate the Minds of the People too much to hearken to those Terms of Reconciliation which they believed would be offered Us. These jarring Views, Wishes and Designs, occasioned an opposition to many salutary Measures, which were proposed for the Support of that Expedition, and caused Obstructions, Embarrassments and studied Delays, which have finally, lost Us the Province.
All these Causes however in Conjunction would not have disappointed Us, if it had not been for a Misfortune, which could not be foreseen, and perhaps could not have been prevented, I mean the Prevalence of the small Pox among our Troops. . . . This fatal Pestilence compleated our Destruction.—It is a Frown of Providence upon Us, which We ought to lay to heart.
But on the other Hand, the Delay of this Declaration to this Time, has many great Advantages attending it.—The Hopes of Reconciliation, which were fondly entertained by Multitudes of honest and well meaning tho weak2 and mistaken People, have been gradually and at last totally extinguished.—Time has been given for the whole People, maturely to consider the great Question of Independence and to ripen their Judgments, dissipate their Fears, and allure their Hopes, by discussing it in News Papers and Pamphletts, by debating it, in Assemblies, Conventions, Committees of Safety and Inspection, in Town and County Meetings, as well as in private Conversations, so that the whole People in every Colony of the 13,3 have now adopted it, as their own Act.—This will cement the Union, and avoid those Heats and perhaps Convulsions which might have been occasioned, by such a Declaration Six Months ago.
But the Day is past. The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America.—I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with4 Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.5
You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not.—I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States.—Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing6 Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph
in that Days Transaction, even7 altho We should rue8 it, which I trust in God We shall not.9
Editor’s Note: The following only represents the full letter from John Adams to his wife, Abigail. There are footnotes in the text and they are available to be read in entirety with the letter by using this link: John Adams to Abigail Adams, 3 July 1776
Additional History
Article links…
From The National Archives: Declaration of Independence: A Transcription
From LinkedIn: Independence Day, a celebration of human dignity by Dr. James Picht
From Canada Free Press by Dennis Jamison: The Current Battle for America’s Soul began with the Declaration of Independence
ICYMI > From American Minute with Bill Federer: Independence Day -- "GREATEST REVOLUTION that has ever taken place IN THE WORLD'S HISTORY"-Ronald Reagan
ICYMI > From Revolutionary War and Beyond: "American Independence" - Samuel Adams Speech - August 1, 1776
Video links…
From US National Archives: The Intolerable Acts!
From US National Archives: July 4th, 2012 at the National Archives: Dramatic Reading of the Declaration of Independence
ICYMI > From The American Minute with Bill Federer (video): American Minute for July 4 - The U.S. Declaration of Independence was approved on this day in 1776.
Coalition Connections…
Editor’s note: The CPR Lifeline Advisory has been revised, and the CPR group activities or articles follow our new ‘featured issue focus’ section. The CPR group activities segment will continue to shine a spotlight on member organizations or allies or affiliates. We know new patriots are awakening each day across the nation, and as ‘necessity breeds invention,’ the CPR seeks to work with additional Christian, conservative, groups as they work to organize, mobilize, and actively respond to the current clear and present danger to our Constitutional Republic.
Election Integrity Project®California, Inc. (EIPCa): Independence Day: Reviving Freedom by Restoring Fair and Honest Elections – 7/4/23
From Camp Constitution: The Declaration of Independence by Pastor Garrett Lear, The Patriot Pastor | campconstitution.net – 7/4/23
From Students for Life for America (SFL-Action): Kristan Hawkins Endorses Indiana Congressman Marlin Stutzman, Says Congress Needs His Pro-Life Leadership Again – 7/5/23
From Safe Kids Now Network: SPIRITUAL IGNORANCE: AMERICA’S DOWNFALL? – 6/13/23
From Last Call Radio Show: 6/24/2023 Fooling with the Truth -
America has not only lost her (can we still use that pronoun?) moral way but we are actually parading unnatural behaviors! BJ Edwards amends today’s news speech and political BS - (Bad Science) in hour one with a special panel selected just for the broadcast. In hour two, BJ talks with Texans Laura and Greta who’re prescribing headaches for hospital administrators & out of control medical practitioners.
More articles…
Adam Schiff, Hunter Biden, and the Congressional Democratic Mob America Ripe for Reform - From The American Spectator – 6/28/23
Supreme Court solidifies protections for workers who ask for religious accommodations - From Breitbart – 6/29/23
For press, Supreme Court is in 'crisis' because it agrees with most Americans - From New York Post – 7/3/23
Of Course Ketanji Brown Jackson Supports Affirmative Action. It's The Only Reason She's A Supreme Court Justice - From The Federalist – 6/29/23
A Shocking Analysis of Election Night Reporting and the Companies that Manufacture Election Results - From The Gateway Pundit by Erin and David Clements – 7/3/23
More videos…
The Fight Against Worldwide Child Slavery & the Sex Trade | Jim Caviezel and Tim Ballard | EP 372 – From From Jordan B. Peterson – 7/3/23
‘Missing’ Biden corruption case witness Dr. Gal Luft details allegations against president’s family - From New York Post – 7/3/23
Clark: The Judeo-Christian Foundation That Drove The Birth Of The American Consciousness – From Bannon's War Room – 7/3/23
A Conversation on Student Loan Forgiveness in the Supreme Court by AEI – From The Epoch Times (w/ video) – 6/29/23 (prior to Supreme Court ruling against Biden’s destructive policy
Supreme Court Issues $379 Billion Loss to Biden - From Facts Matter with Roman Balmakov – 6/30/23
The Future: Vision and Invitation | EP 339 – From From Jordan B. Peterson – 3/13/23
ICYMI > Theatrical Trailer for Sound of Freedom on July 4 – From Angel Studios
ICYMI > Groomed Trailer – A Daily Caller Documentary
Coalition Resources - follow the links…
Citizen Sentinels Network - Citizen Voice News: Citizen Voice | Substack
Liberty Christian Fellowship: About Us – Liberty Christian Fellowship
Safe Family and Neighborhood Resource: Safe Kids Now
Christian Homeschool Resources: Ed-Exit
Resource Promoting the Natural Family & Family Values: Natural Family Foundation
Resource for Christian men: Contact Us | Minutemen United
Christian Constitution Education Resource: Camp Constitution.net
Liberty Tree Constitution Education Resource: LIBERTY TREE ONLINE UNIVERSITY
Recommended Resources - follow the links…
Excellent Citizen Activist Resource: Precinct Strategy: Home
To Restore our educational system to the excellence, morality and patriotism envisioned by our American Founders: For Kids And Country
Public School Exit Resource: Public School Exit - Online Education Impact Program
CRT information for parents, which they can download: Moms for America
Washington Times Constitution Education Resource: Special Section - To The Republic: Rediscovering the Constitution