Power To The People?
July 4 serves as a frank invitation to consider the conditions and ideas that launched the promise of America. For over two centuries their dream has served to define freedom for the rest of the world.
Consequently, they established principles guaranteed to ensure government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Over time, clarification after clarification has extended this umbrella to include women, minorities, and the poor.
This sense of inclusion, bolstered by the weight of informed participation, was - and is - critical.
The message is clear: "This is our government; this country belongs to all of us." Indeed, how can freedom crumble when both the idea of liberty and the responsibility for its stewardship reside in the people? How can such a dream be eroded when authority is vested not in a favored few but with the average Joe?
The extraordinary influence of American citizens is guaranteed in the very Constitution that breathed life into this nascent republic when it was struggling to find its feet. However, every time government acts to increase the distance between real power and the people our government is commissioned to serve, we move a little further away from the meaning of July 4.
Taken from the Words of-- Derek Maul
Whats your intake?
-------> Or to make it simple, what do you plan on doing for July 4th to make it special? <--------
Topic Discussion:
+Above+
Plans for July 4th
True Meanings of July 4th
Honoring Veterans
Fireworks!
Etc..
July 4 serves as a frank invitation to consider the conditions and ideas that launched the promise of America. For over two centuries their dream has served to define freedom for the rest of the world.
Consequently, they established principles guaranteed to ensure government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Over time, clarification after clarification has extended this umbrella to include women, minorities, and the poor.
This sense of inclusion, bolstered by the weight of informed participation, was - and is - critical.
The message is clear: "This is our government; this country belongs to all of us." Indeed, how can freedom crumble when both the idea of liberty and the responsibility for its stewardship reside in the people? How can such a dream be eroded when authority is vested not in a favored few but with the average Joe?
The extraordinary influence of American citizens is guaranteed in the very Constitution that breathed life into this nascent republic when it was struggling to find its feet. However, every time government acts to increase the distance between real power and the people our government is commissioned to serve, we move a little further away from the meaning of July 4.
Taken from the Words of-- Derek Maul
Whats your intake?
-------> Or to make it simple, what do you plan on doing for July 4th to make it special? <--------
Topic Discussion:
+Above+
Plans for July 4th
True Meanings of July 4th
Honoring Veterans
Fireworks!
Etc..