LBCCS Wishes You A Happy Independence Day!

I would like to wish you all a wonderful Independence Day as you celebrate with friends and family. More than two and a quarter centuries ago many of our founders signed the Declaration of Independence and proclaimed that tyranny and oppression of man's natural rights had no place in this great land. But though the document applied only to the thirteen colonies, its significance stretched across the entire face of the earth. Thomas Payne wrote:

The cause of America is, in a great measure, the cause of all mankind. Many circumstances have, and will arise, which are not local, but universal, and through which the principles of all lovers of mankind are affected, and in the event of which, their affections are interested. The laying a country desolate with fire and sword, declaring war against the natural rights of all mankind, and extirpating the defenders thereof from the face of the earth, is the concern of every man to whom nature hath given the power of feeling; of which class, regardless of party censure, is.

Later on, following the completion of our Constitution, James Madison remarked that our founders could have created a country with a form of government similar to those already in existence around the world at that time. But instead,

Happily for America, happily we trust for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society. They reared the fabrics of governments which have no model on the face of the globe. They formed the design of a great Confederacy, which it is incumbent on their successors to improve and perpetuate.

May we all on this 4th of July re-commit to educating ourselves on the Constitution and the founding of our incredible country. Only with that knowledge will we be able to "improve and perpetuate" our great union.

To read the entire text of the Declaration of Independence, visit:

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/pillars/declarationofindependence.php

To download the audio for free, visit:

http://www.learnoutloud.com/Free-Audio-Video/Politics/U.S.-Government/The-United-States-Declaration-of-Independence/19476
or
http://www.americanaphonic.com/?p=255


From your fellow partaker in the American Experiment,

Ryan Burgett
Chairman - L.B.C.C.S.
484-553-0956
ryan_burgett@hotmail.com