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A PLEDGE TO AMERICA

A PLEDGE TO AMERICA

America is more than a country.  

America is an idea – an idea that free people can govern themselves, that government's powers are derived from 

the consent of the governed, that each of us is endowed by their Creator with the unalienable rights to life, 

liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. America is the belief that any man or woman can – given economic, 

political, and religious liberty – advance themselves, their families, and the common good.

America is an inspiration to those who yearn to be free and have the ability and the dignity to determine their 

own destiny. 

Whenever the agenda of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to institute 

a new governing agenda and set a different course.

These first principles were proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence, enshrined in the Constitution, and 

have endured through hard sacrifice and commitment by generations of Americans. 

In a self-governing society, the only bulwark against the power of the state is the consent of the governed, and 

regarding the policies of the current government, the governed do not consent.  .

An unchecked  executive, a compliant legislature, and an overreaching judiciary have combined to thwart the 

will of the people and overturn their votes and their values, striking down long-standing laws and institutions 

and scorning the deepest beliefs of the American people.

An arrogant and out-of-touch government of self-appointed elites makes decisions, issues mandates, and enacts 

laws without accepting or requesting the input of the many.   

Rising joblessness, crushing debt, and a polarizing political environment are fraying the bonds among our 

people and blurring our sense of national purpose.

Like free peoples of the past, our citizens refuse to accommodate a government that believes it can replace the 

will of the people with its own.  The American people are speaking out, demanding that we realign our country's 

compass with its founding principles and apply those principles to solve our common problems for the common 

good.  

The need for urgent action to repair our economy and reclaim our government for the people cannot be 

overstated.  

With this document, we pledge to dedicate ourselves to the task of reconnecting our highest aspirations to the 

permanent truths of our founding by keeping faith with the values our nation was founded on, the principles we 

stand for, and the priorities of our people.  This is our Pledge to America.

We pledge to honor the Constitution as constructed by its framers and honor the original intent of those 

precepts that have been consistently ignored – particularly the Tenth Amendment, which grants that all powers 

not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the 

states respectively, or to the people.

We pledge to advance policies that promote greater liberty, wider opportunity, a robust defense, and national 

economic prosperity.

We pledge to honor families, traditional marriage, life, and the private and faith-based organizations that form 

the core of our American values. 

We pledge to make government more transparent in its actions, careful in its stewardship, and honest in its 

dealings.  

We pledge to uphold the purpose and promise of a better America, knowing that to whom much is given, much 

is expected and that the blessings of our liberty buoy the hopes of mankind.

We make this pledge bearing true faith and allegiance to the people we re

The Declaration of Independce

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connecte3d 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 cause's 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.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, then to right themselves by abloslig\shing the forms to which they are accustomed.  But when a long train of abuses and usurpation, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is  their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.  Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government.

The history of the present king of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states.  To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary of the public good.
He has forbidden his governnors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large district's of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has endeavored to present the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.

He has made judges depedent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

The Bill of Rights - Amendment VI

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.