The Declaration of Independence represents the important, direct, and official position of the Founding Fathers in why they believed it was necessary to declare Independence from England. It states, in part:
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. 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......
The Founders believed in the dignity of the individual that, as human beings, we have a right to live freely and pursue that which motivates us, not because man or some governments says so, but because these are God-given natural rights.
That is what the Fourth of July means to me. Happy Fourth of July America!
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