“When Heav’n propitious smiled upon our arms,
Or Scenes adverse spread terror and alarms,
Through every change the patriot was the same-
And FAITH and HOPE attended THOMSON’S name.”
– Gazette of the United States, July 25, 1789
We The People
WE THE PEOPLE is a Blog forum dedicated to providing a voice to American Citizens interested in preserving Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness, embodied in the principals of Limited Government, Republicanism and Federalism. These principals are set forth by our founding fathers in the original governing documents of the United States of America’s: Declaration of Independence and Constitution including the ratified Bill of Rights.
The Citizens’ voices should be heard to provide a check against encroachment on the People’s and States’ Powers, Rights and Liberties embodied in the original governing documents in relation to current events and issues and our government’s reactions and responses thereto.
As is so succinctly set forth in the United States of America’s Declaration of Independence, signed by my ancestor, Charles Thomson-only Secretary of the Continental Congresses, and President John Hancock on July 4, 1776:
“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.
