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Originally posted by daddyroo45
The Declaration of Independence is not a legal document.
We the People ... do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Originally posted by daddyroo45
The question would be,has the Declaration of Independence ever been sited as precedence in a court of law?
[T]he general doctrine was thus summarized in the opinion delivered by Mr. Chief Justice Marshall (p. 542, L. ed. p. 255):
When our forefathers threw off their allegiance to Great Britain and established a republican government, assuredly they deemed that the nation which they called into being was endowed with those general powers to acquire territory which all independent governments in virtue of their sovereignty enjoyed. This is demonstrated by the concluding paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, which reads as follows:
'As free and independent states, they [the United States of America] 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.'
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It has never been ratified as a law. More the pity,as the wording of the Declaration is irrefutable.The meaning of the wording leave little to interupertation.