Declaration of Independence from Judicial Tyranny

In DISTRESS, July 4, 2005
The unanimous Declaration of the People of the United States of America

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the judicial bands which have connected them with the Federal Courts 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.—That to secure these rights, Courts are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,--That whenever any Form of Judiciary becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Courts, laying their foundation on such principles and organizing their powers in such form, as to them shall deem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Courts long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable 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 Courts, and to provide new Guards for their future security.—Such has been the patient sufferance of these Americans; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Federal Judiciary. The history of the present Courts is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Judicial Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

They have conspired with State Courts in Florida to order the brutal torture and murder of mentally handicapped people.

They have denied the same Rights to unborn citizens that are ascribed to Citizens of these States.

They have ordered Legislatures to lay taxes and levies on the People without their consent.

They have illegally amended the Constitution in the Kelo case, eradicating the protection of private property by changing the original intent of public use to that of private use for eminent domain. (added August 28, 2007)

They have found non-existent Penumbras and Emanations from the original text and meaning of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

They have misinterpreted and misapplied the Commerce Clause.

They have taken for themselves the exclusive right of Judicial Review, thereby usurping this authority from the Executive and Legislative branches.

They have made a mockery of the First Amendment, banning religious ceremonies and displays from all public discourse and failing to enforce the safeguards of Free Exercise.

They have permitted the squashing of Political Speech sixty days prior to an election.

The have systematically ignored the Ninth and Tenth Amendments.

They have intimidated the Senate so as to disallow simple votes on Presidential Judicial Nominees in violation of the intent of Advise and Consent.

They have brought Foreign Ideas and Principles into the adjudication of cases before them.

They have extended the Rights and Benefits of our Nation’s Laws to Aliens.

They have erected a multitude of lesser Courts, and sent hither swarms of Judges to harass our people and eat out their substance.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms; Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Judge, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the judge of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our legislative brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their Supremes to extend unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our Constitution and Bill of Rights. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and consanguinity. We must, there, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in Elections, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the People of the United States of America, in General Distress, Assembled across the land, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the Good People of these States, solemnly publish and declare, That these People are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent from Judicial Tyranny, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the ersatz Federal Judiciary, that they have full Power to read and understand our Laws, engage in Contracts, correctly enforce the Commerce Clause, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent Citizens may of right do.—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.