Happy Independence Day to ALL!
As Plumstead Township celebrates its 300th Anniversary, our Nation is launching a yearlong commemoration of its founding 249 years ago. Most republics “last” about 250 years. Will ours survive longer?
Bucks County PA and Plumstead Township served a pivitol role in the American Revolution and the birth of our nation. This experiment in a Constitutional Republic, a democracy, continues regardless of our political divides and differences. We live in the greatest country on Earth, but it is being tested in ways never imagined but certainly anticipated by some of our founders.
“Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.” — Thomas Jefferson
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
Perhaps The Most Moving, and Revolutionary, Text Ever Written…
“In Congress, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands 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 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, Governments are instituted among Men, 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 institute new Government, 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…”