{"id":147650,"date":"2025-07-04T12:10:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T17:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/?p=147650"},"modified":"2025-07-04T12:10:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T17:10:14","slug":"july-4-1776-that-which-god-has-given-us-we-will-allow-no-one-ever-to-take-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/july-4-1776-that-which-god-has-given-us-we-will-allow-no-one-ever-to-take-away\/","title":{"rendered":"July 4, 1776: ‘That which God has given us, we will allow no one, ever, to take away’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Special to WorldTribune.com<\/span><\/p>\n

By<\/em><\/span><\/span> Bill Federer<\/a><\/span><\/strong>, July 4, 2025<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

38-year-old\u00a0King George the Third<\/strong>\u00a0ruled the largest empire that planet earth had ever seen \u2014 “on which the sun never sets.” He was a\u00a0one-world government globalist<\/strong>, with him at the top, ruling through mandates.<\/p>\n

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John Hancock, the 39-year-old President of the Continental Congress, signed the Declaration first, reportedly saying “the price on my head has just doubled.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Twenty-seven abuses of\u00a0King George the Third<\/strong>\u00a0were listed in the\u00a0Declaration of Independence,\u00a0<\/strong>signed JULY 4, 1776.<\/p>\n

These included:<\/p>\n

A two-tiered justice system: <\/strong>“… He has made judges dependent on his will alone …”<\/p>\n

Weaponizing bureaucracy: <\/strong>“… He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance …”<\/p>\n

Imposing martial law: <\/strong>“… He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies … To subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution … For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us …”<\/p>\n

Targeting political opposition: <\/strong>“… For imposing taxes on us without our consent … For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of trial by jury … For … establishing … an arbitrary government … For … altering fundamentally the forms of our governments …”<\/p>\n

Turning law enforcement and military against his own subjects: <\/strong>“… He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. … He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny … He has\u00a0excited domestic insurrections amongst us,<\/strong>\u00a0and 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 and conditions.”<\/p>\n

33-year-old\u00a0Thomas Jefferson’<\/strong>s original rough draft\u00a0<\/strong>of the Declaration also contained a line\u00a0condemning slavery,<\/strong>\u00a0as the\u00a0King of England<\/strong>\u00a0was part owner of the\u00a0Royal African Company:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“He has\u00a0waged cruel war<\/strong>\u00a0against human nature itself … in the persons of\u00a0a distant people<\/strong>\u00a0who never offended him, captivating and\u00a0carrying them into slavery<\/strong>\u00a0in another hemisphere, or to\u00a0incur miserable death<\/strong>\u00a0in their transportation thither …\u00a0suppressing\u00a0every legislative attempt to\u00a0prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce\u00a0determining to\u00a0keep open a market\u00a0where\u00a0MEN should be bought and sold.”<\/p>\n

John Hancock,<\/strong>\u00a0the 39-year-old President of the Continental Congress, signed the Declaration first, reportedly saying\u00a0“the price on my head has just doubled.”<\/p>\n

Next to sign was Secretary,\u00a0Charles Thomson,\u00a0<\/strong>age 47.<\/p>\n

70-year-old\u00a0Benjamin Franklin\u00a0<\/strong>said: “We must\u00a0hang together<\/strong>\u00a0or most assuredly we shall\u00a0hang separately.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

When the King infringed upon people’s Creator-given rights, the founders went above the King’s head, appealing in the Declaration directly to God Himself as the author of individual rights: “Laws of Nature and of NATURE’S GOD …”<\/p>\n

“All Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their CREATOR with certain unalienable Rights ..”<\/p>\n

“Appealing to the SUPREME JUDGE OF THE WORLD for the rectitude of our intentions …”<\/p>\n

“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of DIVINE PROVIDENCE, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.”<\/p>\n

The line “all men are created equal” fundamentally changed government, as\u00a0kings did not believe everyone was created equal. They believed they were created\u00a0extra special.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was called\u00a0“the divine right of kings,”<\/strong>\u00a0namely, that the Creator gives rights\u00a0to the king<\/strong>\u00a0and he dispenses them at his discretion to\u00a0whoever he wishes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Declaration of Independence\u00a0bypassed the King,<\/strong>\u00a0declaring that the\u00a0Creator gives rights directly<\/strong>\u00a0to\u00a0each individual person.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Many of the 56 signers\u00a0sacrificed their prosperity for their posterity.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Of the signers:<\/p>\n

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  • 11 had their homes destroyed;<\/li>\n
  • 5 were hunted and captured;<\/li>\n
  • 17 served in the military; and<\/li>\n
  • 9 died during the war.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    27-year-old\u00a0George Walton<\/strong>\u00a0signed, and at the Battle of Savannah was wounded and captured.<\/p>\n

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    John Trumbull’s painting, Declaration of Independence, depicting the five-man drafting committee of the Declaration of Independence presenting their work to the Congress.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    Signers\u00a0Edward Rutledge,<\/strong>\u00a0age 27,\u00a0Thomas Heyward, Jr.,<\/strong>\u00a0age 30, and\u00a0Arthur Middleton,<\/strong>\u00a0age 34, were made prisoners at the\u00a0Siege of Charleston.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    38-year-old signer\u00a0Thomas Nelson<\/strong>\u00a0had his home used as British headquarters during the siege of Yorktown.\u00a0Nelson\u00a0<\/strong>reportedly offered five guineas to the first man to hit his house.<\/p>\n

    Signer\u00a0Carter Braxton,\u00a0<\/strong>age 40, lost his fortune during the war.<\/p>\n

    42-year-old signer\u00a0Thomas McKean\u00a0<\/strong>wrote that he was “hunted like a fox by the enemy, compelled to remove my family five times in three month.”<\/p>\n

    46-year-old\u00a0Richard Stockton<\/strong>\u00a0signed and was dragged from his bed at night and jailed.<\/p>\n

    50-year-old signer\u00a0Lewis Morris\u00a0<\/strong>had his home taken and used as a barracks.<\/p>\n

    50-year-old signer\u00a0Abraham Clark<\/strong>\u00a0had two sons tortured and imprisoned on the British starving ship\u00a0Jersey.<\/em><\/p>\n

    More Americans died on British starving ships than died in battle during the Revolution.<\/p>\n

    53-year-old signer\u00a0Rev. John Witherspoon’s<\/strong>\u00a0 son,\u00a0James,\u00a0<\/strong>was killed at the\u00a0Battle of Germantown.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    60-year-old signer\u00a0Philip Livingston<\/strong>\u00a0lost several properties to British occupation and died before the war ended.<\/p>\n

    63-year-old signer\u00a0Francis Lewis<\/strong>\u00a0found out that the British plundered his home and carried away his wife,\u00a0Elizabeth,\u00a0<\/strong>putting her in prison.<\/p>\n

    The British wanted to make an example of her, so they denied her a change of clothes, a bed, and gave her nothing but the most meager food. She was treated so harshly that she died shortly after being released.<\/p>\n

    65-year-old signer\u00a0John Hart<\/strong>\u00a0had his home looted and had to remain in hiding, dying before the war ended.<\/p>\n

    41-year-old\u00a0John Adams<\/strong>\u00a0wrote: “Posterity, you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.”<\/p>\n

    Regarding the day the Declaration was signed,\u00a0John Adams<\/strong>\u00a0wrote to his wife:<\/p>\n

    “I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding generations, as the\u00a0great anniversary Festival.<\/strong> It ought to be\u00a0commemorated,<\/strong>\u00a0as the Day of Deliverance<\/strong>\u00a0by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty.<\/p>\n

    It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shews, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this time forward forever more.”<\/p>\n

    John Adams<\/strong>\u00a0continued in his letter to his wife:<\/p>\n

    “You will think me transported with enthusiasm but I am not.<\/p>\n

    I am well aware of the toil and\u00a0blood and treasure,\u00a0that it will\u00a0cost us\u00a0to maintain this\u00a0Declaration,\u00a0and support and defend these States.<\/p>\n

    Yet through all the gloom I can see the\u00a0rays of ravishing light and glory.\u00a0I can see that the end is more than worth all the means.<\/p>\n

    And that\u00a0Posterity will triumph\u00a0in that Days Transaction, even although we should rue it, which\u00a0I trust in God\u00a0we shall not.”<\/p>\n

    When 54-year-old\u00a0Samuel Adams<\/strong>\u00a0signed the Declaration, he said:<\/p>\n

    “We have this day restored THE SOVEREIGN to whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven\u00a0and from the rising to the setting of the sun,\u00a0let His kingdom come.”<\/p>\n

    34-year-old\u00a0James Wilson<\/strong>\u00a0signed the Declaration. He later signed the Constitution and was appointed to Supreme Court by George Washington.\u00a0James Wilson<\/strong>\u00a0stated in 1787:<\/p>\n

    “After a period of 6,000 years since creation, the United States exhibit to the world THE FIRST INSTANCE of a nation … assembling voluntarily … and deciding … that system of government under which they and their posterity should live.”<\/p>\n

    Senator Daniel Webster<\/strong>\u00a0stated in 1802:<\/p>\n

    “Miracles do not cluster, and what has HAPPENED ONCE IN 6,000 YEARS, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for\u00a0if the American Constitution should fail,<\/strong>\u00a0there will be\u00a0anarchy throughout the world.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

    John Jay<\/strong>\u00a0was President of the Continental Congress, 1778-1779, and later nominated by George Washington to be the First Chief Justice of Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

    John Jay wrote in 1777:<\/p>\n

    “The Americans are THE FIRST PEOPLE whom Heaven has favored with an opportunity of … choosing the forms of government under which they should live. All other constitutions have derived their existence from violence or accidental circumstances … Your lives, your liberties, your property,\u00a0will be at the disposal\u00a0only of your Creator\u00a0and\u00a0yourselves.”<\/p>\n

    At the time of the Revolutionary War, nearly\u00a0every other country<\/strong>\u00a0on Earth was\u00a0ruled by a king.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Dr. Pat Robertson<\/strong>\u00a0wrote in\u00a0America’s Dates with Destiny,<\/em>\u00a01986:<\/p>\n

    “On September 17, 1787, the day our Constitution was signed, the\u00a0absolute monarch Ch’ien Lung,<\/strong>\u00a0emperor of the\u00a0Manchu (or Ch’ing) Dynasty,<\/strong>\u00a0reigned supreme over the people of\u00a0China<\/strong>\u00a0… Revolts were put down by ruthless military force.<\/p>\n

    In\u00a0Japan<\/strong>\u00a0the shogun (warriors) of the corrupt\u00a0Tokugawa<\/strong>\u00a0chamberlain\u00a0Tanuma Okitsugu\u00a0<\/strong>exercised corrupt and\u00a0totalitarian authority<\/strong>\u00a0over the\u00a0Japanese.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    In\u00a0India, Warren Hastings,<\/strong>\u00a0the British Governor of\u00a0Bengal,<\/strong>\u00a0had successfully defeated the influence of the fragmented\u00a0Mogul dynasties<\/strong>\u00a0that ruled India since 1600.<\/p>\n

    Catherine the Second\u00a0<\/strong>was the enlightened despot of all the\u00a0Russias.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Joseph the Second<\/strong>\u00a0was the emperor of\u00a0Austria, Bohemia and Hungary.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    For almost half a century,\u00a0Frederick the Great\u00a0<\/strong>had ruled\u00a0Prussia.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Louis the Sixteenth<\/strong>\u00a0sat uneasily on his throne in\u00a0France<\/strong>\u00a0just years away from revolution, a bloody experiment in democracy, and the new tyranny of\u00a0Napoleon Bonaparte.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    A kind of a constitutional government had been created in the\u00a0Netherlands<\/strong>\u00a0in 1579 by the\u00a0Protestant Union of Utrecht,<\/strong>\u00a0but that constitution was really a loose federation of the northern provinces for a defense against Catholic\u00a0Spain<\/strong>\u00a0…<\/p>\n

    What was happening in America had no real precedent, even as far back as the\u00a0city-states of Greece.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    The only real precedent was established thousands of years before by\u00a0the tribes of Israel<\/strong>\u00a0in the\u00a0covenant with God and with each other.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

    A King has\u00a0“subjects”<\/strong>\u00a0who are subjected to his will. The word\u00a0“citizen”<\/strong>\u00a0is Greek, and it means a co-ruler, a co-regent, a\u00a0co-king.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    America’s founders, for all their faults,\u00a0gave a present to all future citizens,\u00a0namely,\u00a0each person gets to be king of their own life,<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0all citizens together<\/strong>\u00a0are the\u00a0co-kings of the country! <\/strong>A republic\u00a0is where the\u00a0people are king, ruling through representatives.<\/p>\n

    America\u00a0is a\u00a0republic\u00a0where WE THE PEOPLE get to rule ourselves.<\/p>\n

    When someone\u00a0protests the flag,\u00a0what they are effectively saying, is, that\u00a0they no longer want to be king. They protest this system where\u00a0they participate in ruling themselves. They want someone else to rule their life.<\/p>\n

    John Adams<\/strong>\u00a0wrote in his notes on\u00a0A Dissertation on Canon & Feudal Law,\u00a0<\/em>1765:<\/p>\n

    “I always consider the settlement of America … as the opening of a\u00a0grand scene and design in Providence\u00a0for … the\u00a0emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.”<\/strong><\/p>\n