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The three branches of the U.S. federal government—the Presidency, the Congress, and the Supreme Court—have abandoned the public good in favor of elite interests, partisan entrenchment, and systemic injustice. In response, we declare moral independence from their authority and establish this think tank to reclaim the democratic ideals upon which the nation was founded. The words of the original Declaration of Independence (1776) are in blue.
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The Declaration of Moral Independence from the United States Government’s Three Branches: The Presidency, The Congress, and The Supreme Court (2025)
By virtue of naturalization or birth, citizens of the United States have tacitly consented to be governed by federal law. As such we have entered into the procedural morality of a social contract, in which justice is conducted by the rule of law and representation is by voting for our members of Congress. It was believed that these acts of citizenship were the embodiment of political morality. To do right is to submit to this government.
When in the Course of Human Events:
It becomes necessary for one people to reclaim the political morality 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 people 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, Governments are instituted among people, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of THE PEOPLE to ALTER or to abolish it, and to ASSERT THEIR COLLECTIVE MORAL AUTHORITY, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly, all experience hath shewn, 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 REASSERT THE INDEPENDENCE OF POLITICAL MORALITY from the individuals in government that abuse it and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of inhabitants of the United States and the citizens that swear an oath of loyalty to its government; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to make demands upon officials who have been given the privilege of occupying the various branches of our Systems of Government. Under the history of the current President of the United States, The Supreme Court, and the Congress is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having as direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over THE PEOPLE. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
Whereas:
The current iteration of the three branches of government has run afoul of these self-evident first principles of our political morality, we THE PEOPLE wish to formally secede from this iteration of the political compact as being immoral and to assert the independent ethical standard that is consistent with universal laws that were invoked in the original declaration of independence.
Therefore:
1. THE PEOPLE are without representation in the halls of Congress because of, quintessentially, but not exclusively, the 3B legislation that is the largest transference of wealth upward in the nation’s history and exposes the polity to multiple perils (e.g., loss of basic health care, the degrading of our scientific expertise and dominance).
2. THE PEOPLE are without equality under the law because of the reckless and unconscionable neglect of jurisprudence by the Supreme Court majority that has ignored all previous conventions such as Stare decisis and Ratio Decidendi to rule solely in favor of the executive branch showing partiality by being willing to intervene in the normal judicial process.
3. THE PEOPLE are at the mercy of a morally adrift and lawless executive who incited an insurrection at the sacred seat of our democracy, and defiled THE PEOPLE’S HOUSE by turning it into spectacle of humiliation for opponents and shameful fawning for sycophants. He has propagated philosophical and logical fallacies of the body politic through decrying the value of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
