The DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE IS OUR MORAL LAW
Dear Subscribers, I am a new guest blogger at Digitalmehmet Content Ecosystem, joining here with the invitation by Dr Mehmet Yildiz, who is the chief editor of ILLUMINATION publications on Medium, Substack, and Patreon. He thought my stories about citizenship awareness in the United States were worth sharing on his platform, so I graciously accepted his kind offer.
In past articles, this author indicated, “we own” the government. The question arose why?
The why is explained in the Declaration of Independence when Jefferson stated, “and such is now the necessity which constraints them to alter their former System of Government.”
Who is “them?”
Those who “hold these truths to be self-evident.” Us, the people.
We have inherited the system as created by our Forefathers, but have not understood what it means. We have been looking at the parts. I am showing you the system. The Declaration is not dead history — it is the engine that gives the Constitution purpose. Without it, you are interpreting a car without turning it on. We “Drive the Car!”
That change of interpretation is what gives us, the Citizens, ownership of the country our forefathers created.
The people are sovereign — Thus, the Constitution is not the law that governs us. The Constitution is the Law that governs our people while serving in Government.
The meaning of “Citizenship” changes from watching passively what the government does to that of an “owner” of our country and rulers of the government, thus becoming active participants.
INTRODUCTION
The Declaration is not a relic. It is the engine of our system — the statement of purpose that gives meaning to the Constitution and life to our laws. Jefferson taught us that governments are instituted among men to secure unalienable rights: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. When a government becomes destructive of those ends, the people have the right — indeed the duty — to alter or abolish it.
That permission was not for 1776 alone. It is for every generation. Franklin’s warning — “A Republic, if you can keep it” — was not a prophecy; it was a charge.
Systems — The Thing People Don’t See
Why is the Government NOT in the picture? Because we, The People, create the government when we vote. No vote. No Government.
TODAY,
People confuse parts with systems. A system is more than pieces. A car is not the sum of its bolts; it is mobility. Scatter the parts and there is no car. The whole has properties none of the parts possess. Systems work because their parts interact for a purpose. When the purpose is lost, the system collapses.
Apply that to government:
- The Declaration provides the system’s purpose — the moral engine.
- The Constitution provides the process — the gears and transmission.
- Government is the executor — the machinery.
- The People are the driver — the input, the will, the consent.
When any one of these stops functioning as designed, the machine loses its capability. Too many Americans — and, painfully, too many in government — study the parts and miss the engine. They admire clauses without understanding their purpose. That ignorance is the crack that lets republics crack.
The Four Cancers Killing the Republic
Permanent Reelection.
Congress was meant to be a service. Now it is a career.
Careers replace duty.
Entrenchment replaces representation.
The expense is endless. The benefit to the people is little.
Executive Orders.
Executives were meant to enforce the law.
Now they make laws with a pen.
Decrees replace debate.
Power concentrates.
This is not faithful execution — it is a monarchy in disguise.
Ideology as Herd Control.
The government should unite us in common security.
Instead, parties feed us slogans like cattle feed and divide us into hostile tribes.
Faction wins where the union should stand.
Economic Abuse.
The economy should serve the people.
Now it serves rulers.
In Russia, Putin hoards while people suffer. In America, tariffs and plunder serve political theater and private gain.
Prosperity becomes an instrument of control, not a public good.
Left unchecked, these cancers transform our system into a shell — ballots remain, but meaning is gone.
The Chessboard — The Global Context
We live in a two-faced, polarized world. Like a chess match, White plays defense while Black removes pieces one by one. We, the people, are the pawns. Abroad, Putin practices neocolonial conquest — influence, debt, energy, and disinformation, and watches democracies weaken themselves from within. At home, leaders who mimic that playbook erode institutions and make conquest easier. The danger is not only foreign; it is domestic.
SCOTUS — THE BETRAYAL
The Justices are not gods. They are citizens sworn to the same moral law as the rest of us. They take an oath to “support and defend the Constitution,” yet the Constitution was designed to serve the Declaration’s purpose. To treat the Declaration as mere history is to admire the engine and refuse to start the car. Remember? They are Citizens first.
The Declaration is the engine. The Constitution is the transmission. The people are the driver. When the Court treats purpose as optional, it polishes parts for a machine no longer meant to move the people. It reads clauses but ignores the ends. That is a structural failure. We have cracks in our foundation, thus the cancers we are living with.
Ask plainly: Who drives the car? If the Court will not recognize that the People drive, the wheel will be seized by incumbents, executives, and ideologues. That is how republics turn into theater and ballots into puppetry. That is betrayal.
This is simple, and it is urgent. We face that test now.
CITIZENSHIP — THE ONLY CURE
A Republic is not kept by laws alone. It is kept by citizens.
We own this government. Not Congress. Not the President. Not the Court. We the People.
Citizenship is not a spectator sport. It is the driver’s seat. It is vigilance. It is a duty. It is the daily work of holding leaders to the moral law of the Declaration. It is speaking, organizing, voting, educating, resisting abuses, and refusing to trade liberty for comfort.
When we forget this, the system collapses into parts — officials chasing reelection, presidents ruling by decree, factions dividing the herd, rulers plundering the economy.
When we remember, the system lives. The Declaration gives the purpose. The Constitution gives the process. Government executes. The People drive.
JEFFERSON’S PERMISSION — THE FINAL HAMMER
Jefferson wrote: “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 institute new Government…”
He was not speaking only for 1776. He was speaking for every generation. He was speaking for us.
The founders gave us permission. They gave us the duty.
The only question is whether we will use it.
The Declaration of Independence is not a museum piece. It is our engine, our moral law, and our permission to act. If the engine is ignored, the car will be steered by those who seize the wheel. Only citizenship can prevent that. Only we can drive.
Only citizenship can break the spell of incremental seduction; without it, the Republic dies not in one blow, but in a thousand quiet surrenders.
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