A Declaration: It Is Time For History To Repeat Itself

A desire for independence sprouted and festered in the minds of men, inevitably becoming an ever-increasing resentment toward their own government. Overtime the resentment of these men developed a rebellious mind set, which in 1775, erupted into an anti-government gunfight at Lexington and Concord. A few months later the gunfight became a war on a knoll called Bunker Hill.

The Sugar Act, the Currency Act, the Quartering Act and the Stamp Act proclaimed during those years fed the flames of a rebellion; soon bursting into a roaring fire of open resistance in 1764-65. In fact the Stamp Act was repealed by the government due to constant and unrelenting harassment inflicted by the Sons of Liberty.

A few years later, in 1770, rioting broke out in the streets of New York. Five colonists involved in minor confrontations with the government were shot and killed. Then in 1773 the colonists became further incensed with their governments newly claimed power to levy a small tax on tea by enacting what was called the Tea Act. As a result the rebels challenged their King's authority to legislate at a tax on the colonies, by staging the infamous Boston Tea Party; which was instrumental in provoking King George into issuing what was called the “Intolerable Acts.” His military began seizing ammunition from local militias and at the same time fortifying the city of Boston.

In response, the colonists convened the First Continental Congress, and local militia throughout the colonies formed a force called "the minutemen," to include men willing, able and ready to fight at a minute's notice. On April 18, 1775 just before midnight, these minutemen scattered throughout the countryside were warned by two men named Paul Revere and William Dawes riding through the night on horseback from Boston. Their warning to the militia was to prepare, because the government troops were coming to confiscate all guns and ammunition the colonies had stored in Concord. The “shot heard around the world” sounded just as the sun began to rise. These rebels were not about to give up their God-given right to keep and bear arms.

The world soon became informed in a written Declaration document signed by 56 men, as to why such ordinary men were compelled to raise their muskets and began firing on their own government. The document read in part: "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 abolish it, and to institute a new government..."

The Declaration of Independence: God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice...became the basis of a newly formed federal government.