What spurred me to do this was reading an article about the Indiana courts ruling to allow police officers to violate the illegal search and seizure
amendment whenever they please. Article here:
www.foxnews.com...
I began to think about how people don't understand these rights, and how a lot of it may be due simply to the wording used in the good olde days, so I
decided to "translate" the most important piece of American writing.
Feel free to modify, add input, or share with anyone. In this day and age where our education system is so horrible people can barely type full words
without using txt speak, maybe, just maybe a more modern translation of this will wake a few people up to the abuses of our government. Heck I'd like
this to come back around to me as a viral posting on Facebook.
ORIGINAL
"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 bearable 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."
MY INTERPRETATION
"We establish these facts to be recognized by everyone, all men are created equal, and they are given by their Creator certain rights that cannot be
taken away, among these are Life, Freedom, and the pursuit of Happiness. To ensure these rights, governments are created by Men, and are provided
their powers from the consent of the citizens. If whenever any form of govenment becomes destructive to any of these rights, it is the right of the
people to change or get rid of it, and to create a new government, at its foundation being the ideas, and arranging its powers in a way that to them
will be most likely to ensure the safety and happiness of the citizens. Caution should be used so that long established governments should not be
changed for un-important or short-lived causes; because of that, all experience has shown that mankind is more likely to suffer, while the evils are
bearable than to correct these evils by getting rid of the laws and processes that they are used to. However, when a long train of abuses and seizures
of these rights cleary demonstrates a goal to rule them under absolute tyrrany, it is their right, it is their duty, to get rid of such government,
and to provide new guards for their future security. This has been the patient tolerance of these United States of America; and it is now necessary
because of this repression for the citizens to alter their former system of government."
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