July 4th and the Principles of Liberty
Origins of the 28 Principles of Liberty
On July 4 Americans will celebrate Independence Day, the day 56 men from all economic backgrounds, representing the various New World English Colonies, signed the Declaration of Independence from King George III, of Great Britain and Ireland.
What on earth could have had authority higher than the king’s? What source document did the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence hold in higher regard than the ‘divine right of kings’ to issue and enforce written edicts over their subjects?
We have previously listed the 28 Principles of Liberty on which our nation was founded.
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They correlate remarkably with the 27 indictments of King George III.
27 Indictments of King George III Applied to World Leaders Today
By what authority did our nation’s founders think they had a right to hold the King of Great Britain and Ireland to these principles? What document gave lowly subjects of The Crown the right to call out the King’s 27 violations and reject the King’s authority rule them?
The Word of God. When God persuaded the Pharaoh of Egypt to free the Israelite’s, who had been enslaved to Egypt for generations, Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, saw 603,000 freed Israelite’s thundering out of Egypt, to what? They had no idea how to live free in a fallen world.
The First Testament of the Bible chronicles this journey and gives the Israelite’s more than 600 mitzvah, or commandments of self-governance, as the foundation of Jewish law. The top 10 of these (see Exodus 20) are the keystone of God’s natural law.
It was Jethro who gave structure to governing ourselves by God’s natural law. It was Joshua who taught us how to structure our defense of our God-given rights to self-govern. 1789, these principled structures would become the Constitution that defines our Representative Republic under every human being’s God-given rights to self-govern.
On July 4, 1776, the Congress of Great Britain’s American colonies stated their case for separation from the rule of King George III, using many of the same principles to which God, through Moses, held the Pharaoh of Egypt. This statement was the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.
Relevant Today? Our Declaration of Independence is relevant today because our nation of self-governed people is perpetually under attack by those who seek to take our God-given rights and powers away from the individual and rule over us.
Remember the 5 Sections?
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Knowing the five sections of this document is vital to keeping our rights and freedoms. Here’s how to remember the sections; this is from page 89 of How to Save the Constitution; Restoring the Principles of Liberty, where there is more detail:
1. Preamble: “When in the course of human events…”
2. Rights: “We hold these truths to be self-evident…”
3. Indictments, the 27 Charges: “He (King George III) has refused his assent to laws…”
4. Defense, “…we have petitioned for redress…”
5. Execution, or putting into effect.
PRIDE: The first letter of the five sections form the word “PRIDE.” The document is a little over 4 pages, beginning on Page 189–a must-read for every American citizen, so every generation will recognize when our God-given rights to self-govern are under siege and know to defend them.