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Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms - 1775</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> A <b>declaration</b> by the representatives of the united colonies of North America, now met in Congress at Philadelphia, setting forth the <b>causes</b> and <b>necessity</b> of their <b>taking</b> <b>up</b> <b>arms</b>. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> By this perfidy wives are separated from their husbands, children from their parents, the aged and the sick from their relations and friends, who wish to attend and comfort them; and those who have been used to live in plenty and even elegance, are reduced to deplorable distress. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Lest this <b>declaration</b> should disquiet the minds of our friends and fellow-subjects in any part of the empire, we assure them that we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.nationalcenter.org /1775DeclarationofArms.html</font> (1642 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><u>§13. "The Declaration of Independence". VIII. American Political Writing, 1760–1789. Vol. 15. Colonial and ...</u> <i>(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)</i></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The conduct of the king, the ministry, and the Parliament, the history and <b>necessities</b> of the colonies, and the constitutional foundations of empire had all been repeatedly and ably examined by lawyers and publicists, and the findings set forth by accomplished writers, long before Jefferson was called upon to say the final word. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Of all the criticisms that have been passed upon the <b>Declaration</b> of Independence, the least to the point is that it is not original. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> What was required now was a concise summing <b>up</b> of the whole matter, full enough to give a clear impression of completeness, vigorous and bold enough to serve as a national manifesto, and polished, dignified, and incisive enough to catch the ear, to linger in the memory, and to bear endless repetition.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/225/0813.html</font> (539 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.harbornet.com/rights/dec-arms.txt">[No title]</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>DECLARATION</b> OF THE <b>CAUSES</b> AND <b>NECESSITY</b> OF <b>TAKING</b> <b>UP</b> <b>ARMS</b>, July 6, 1775 A <b>declaration</b> by the representatives of the united colonies of North America, now met in Congress at Philadelphia, setting forth the <b>causes</b> and <b>necessity</b> of their <b>taking</b> <b>up</b> <b>arms</b>. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Fruitless were all the entreaties, arguments, and eloquence of an illustrious band of the most distinguished peers, and common- ers, who nobly and strenuously asserted the justice of our <b>cause</b>, to stay, or even to mitigate the heedless fury with which these accumulated and unexampled outrages were hurried on. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> By this perfidy wives are separated from their husbands, child- ren from their parents, the aged and the sick from their rela- tions and friends, who wish to attend and comfort them; and those who have been used to live in plenty and even elegance, are reduced to deplorable distress.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.harbornet.com /rights/dec-arms.txt</font> (1923 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><div id="ad2" style="display: none"></div><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09438b.htm">CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Martin Luther</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> His whole being was wrought <b>up</b> to such an acute tension that he actually regretted his parents were not dead, that he might avail himself of the facilities Rome afforded to save them from purgatory. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> However, the memorable theological passage at <b>arms</b> the king had had with Luther, the latter's cringing apology, left such a feeling of aversion, if not contempt, in the soul of his rival reformer, that the invitation was to all intents ignored. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The marriage in spite of all precautions, injunctions, and pledges of secrecy leaked out, <b>caused</b> a national sensation and scandal, and set in motion an extensive correspondence between all intimately concerned, to neutralize the effect on the public mind.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.newadvent.org /cathen/09438b.htm</font> (16986 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://users.law.capital.edu/dmayer/Blog/blogIndex.asp?entry=20050627.asp">MayerBlog</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Indeed, as the 1775 <b>Declaration</b> shows, the Patriot leaders of the American Revolution used conservative arguments — legal arguments, not surprisingly, as many of them were lawyers — that asserted their rights under the British legal system and constitution, as they understood them. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The proximate <b>cause</b> — that is, the direct and immediate <b>cause</b> — of the American Revolution was the change in British imperial policy after the French and Indian War (or, as it was called in Europe, the Seven Years’ War) ended in 1763. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The underlying <b>cause</b> of the American Revolution was the difference between the legal and political systems of Britain itself and its colonies in North America.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>users.law.capital.edu /dmayer/Blog/blogIndex.asp?entry=20050627.asp</font> (2816 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1751-1775/war/causes.htm">From Revolution to Reconstruction: Documents: Causes and Necessity of taking up Arms</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> But a reverence for our great Creator, principles of humanity, and the dictates of common sense, must convince all those who reflect upon the subject, that government was instituted to promote the welfare of mankind, and ought to be administered for the attainment of that end. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> From that fatal moment, the affairs of the British empire began to fall into confusion, and gradually sliding from the summit of glorious prosperity, to which they had been advanced by the virtues and abilities of one man, are at length distracted by the convulsions, that now shake it to its deepest foundations. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Fruitless were all the entreaties, arguments, and eloquence of an illustrious band of the most distinguised peers, and commoners, who nobly and stren[u]ously asserted the justice of our <b>cause</b>, to stay, or even to mitigate the heedless fury with which these accumulated and unexampled outrages were hurried on.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/D/1751-1775/war/causes.htm</font> (1584 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.bartleby.com/225/0812.html">§12. "A Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms". VIII. American Political Writing, ...</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> On 6 July Congress adopted a <b>Declaration</b> of the <b>Causes</b> and <b>Necessity</b> of <b>Taking</b> <b>Up</b> <b>Arms</b>, 17 the joint work of Dickinson and Jefferson, and one of the greatest of the state papers of the Revolution. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> In our own native land, in defence of the freedom that is our birthright, and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it—for the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our fore-fathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken <b>up</b> <b>arms</b>. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not before.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.bartleby.com /225/0812.html</font> (455 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.harbornet.com/rights/d-causes.txt">[No title]</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> But a reverence for our great Creator, principles of humanity, and the dictates of com- mon sense, must convince all those who reflect upon the subject, that government was instituted to promote the welfare of man- kind, and ought to be administered for the attainment of that end. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> By this perfidy wives are separated from their husbands, child- ren from their parents, the aged and sick from their relations and friends, who wish to attend and comfort them; and those who have been used to live in plenty and even elegance, are reduced to deplorable distress. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not be- fore.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.harbornet.com /rights/d-causes.txt</font> (1579 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3814e06c53ba.htm">Citizens of Boston surrender their arms. [Free Republic]</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> In their <b>Declaration</b> they hold out the hope of reconciliation with England, but at the same time approve the use of <b>armed</b> resistance to obtain recognition of their rights. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The Americans promise to lay down their <b>arms</b> when their liberties are secured, but also indicate that the colonies may obtain foreign aid against Britain. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear <b>arms</b> is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3814e06c53ba.htm</font> (1948 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.think-israel.org/background.html">Think-Israel</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Israel, despite constant propaganda to the contrary, is not the "root <b>cause"</b> of this strife and turmoil in the Middle East. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Taking</b> this teaching to heart the Muslims tried to carry their counter —attacks to Byzanz, and then through North Africa to Rome where they hoped to strike at the root of the evil, and eradicate it. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The document <b>declaring</b> the establishment of the state of Israel asserts this fact, for it does not hide that the state of Israel is but the name for a Jewish state.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.think-israel.org /background.html</font> (12536 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.crf-usa.org/Foundation_docs/Foundation_lesson_declaration.htm">The Declaration of Independence and Natural Rights, Lesson Plans</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Declaration</b> of the <b>Causes</b> and <b>Necessity</b> for <b>Taking</b> <b>Up</b> <b>Arms</b> stopped short of <b>declaring</b> independence, but pointed out the folly of governing the American colonies from England. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Now, almost 100 years later, a formal <b>declaration</b> of independence by the Continental Congress was the only thing standing in the way of a complete break with King George. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The best Jefferson could come <b>up</b> with was a plan to <b>take</b> slave children from their parents and put them in schools to be educated and taught a trade at public expense.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.crf-usa.org /Foundation_docs/Foundation_lesson_declaration.htm</font> (2045 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><u>From Revolution to Reconstruction: Documents: Causes and Necessity of taking up Arms: Context</u> <i>(Site not responding. 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TAKING UP ARMS</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> AN INTRODUCTION TO THE <b>DECLARATION</b> OF THE <b>CAUSES</b> AND <b>NECESSITY</b> OF <b>TAKING</b> <b>UP</b> <b>ARMS</b> 1775 </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>Declaration</b> of the <b>Causes</b> and <b>Necessity</b> of <b>Taking</b> <b>up</b> <b>Arms</b> held out hope of reconciliation, but at the same time approved the use of force to obtain recognition by Britain of colonial rights. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>Declaration</b> and Resolves sought to obtain recognition of those rights by means of the trade restrictions of the Association.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.mercyseat.net /DEFEND/introdeclaration.htm</font> (1060 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.ipfw.edu/pols/syllabi/bartky/WarEraDocuments.htm">Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of taking up Arms,</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the <b>necessity</b> which constrains them to expunge their former systems of government. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> [he has dissolved]he has refused for a long space of time, to <b>cause</b> others to be elected, whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise, the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within: </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> XI Canada acceding to this confederation, and adjoining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into, and entitled to all the advantages of this Union; but no other colony shall be admitted into the same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine States.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.ipfw.edu /pols/syllabi/bartky/WarEraDocuments.htm</font> (3401 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a39641ce81b97.htm">Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms [Free Republic]</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Declaration</b> of the <b>Causes</b> and <b>Necessity</b> of <b>Taking</b> <b>Up</b> <b>Arms</b> [Free Republic] </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> They had a tremendous grasp of the language and you can literally feel their passion if you <b>take</b> the time to read and ponder each sentence. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> These were men who did not lightly <b>take</b> their responsibilities, and the transformation from resistance to British oppression to an outright <b>declaration</b> of independence was painful, yet necessary.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.freerepublic.com /forum/a39641ce81b97.htm</font> (1805 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/writings/cause_of_arms.html">Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> It is universally conessed, that the amazing increase of the wealth, strength, and navigation of the realm, arose from this source; and the minister, who so wisely and successfully directed the measures of Great-Britain in the late war, publicly <b>declared</b>, that these colonies enabled her to triumph over her enemies. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Fruitless were all the entreaties, arguments, and eloquence of an illustrious band of the most distinguished peers, and commoners, who nobly nad strenuously asserted the justice of our <b>cause</b>, to stay, or even to mitigate the heedless fury with which these accumulated and unexample outrages were hrried on. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>"declare</b> them all, either by name or description, to be rebels and traitors, to superced the course of the common law, and instead thereof to publish and order the use and exercise of the law martial."</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.lexrex.com /enlightened/writings/cause_of_arms.html</font> (1680 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://members.tripod.com/restoration_ministry/onenation/rebellionasreligion.htm">The Revolution as a Religious Uprising</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> 1775), the document <b>Declaration</b> of the <b>Causes</b> and <b>Necessity</b> of <b>Taking</b> <b>up</b> <b>Arms</b> was penned. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> One year later, when the <b>Declaration</b> of Independence was written, it followed the exact same line of reasoning. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> All of the Founders felt that they were divinely ordained for that moment to devote their entire selves to the <b>cause</b>.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>members.tripod.com /restoration_ministry/onenation/rebellionasreligion.htm</font> (540 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><u>Arab-Israeli conflict</u> <i>(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)</i></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Kuwait and other Gulf Arab monarchies withdrew their support from the Palestinian <b>cause</b>, which was one of the factors leading to the PLO signing the Oslo Accords. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The supporters of Israel argue that the return of Palestinian refugees and millions of their descendents would mean the end of Jewish self-determination and assert the historical <b>necessity</b> for Jews to have a safe haven. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> They also argue that the civilian deaths <b>caused</b> by their operations are dwarfed by those dismissed as "collateral damage" <b>caused</b> by the full scale military campaigns done by various world powers.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>arab-israeli-conflict.iqnaut.net</font> (6659 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/ingervol.htm">Voltaire -- by Robert Green Ingersoll</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Such was the result of a belief in the supernatural; such was the result of giving <b>up</b> the evidence of their own senses and relying upon dreams, visions and fears. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> All order, all regular succession of <b>causes</b> and effects were known no more; the natural ceased to exist; the learned and the ignorant were on a level. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The dead son was considered a martyr, the church <b>taking</b> possession of the body.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.positiveatheism.org /hist/ingervol.htm</font> (10911 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/author.htm">The Avalon Project : Author Listing</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Declaration</b> of the <b>Causes</b> and <b>Necessity</b> of <b>Taking</b> <b>Up</b> <b>Arms</b> : July 6, 1775. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Draft <b>Declaration</b> and Protest of the Commonwealth of Virginia. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Declarations</b> of a State of War with Japan, Germany, and Italy.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/author.htm</font> (945 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/milestones/decofarms">MILESTONE HISTORIC DOCUMENTS - The Declaration of Arms</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> n their <b>Declaration</b> they hold out the hope of reconciliation with England, but at the same time approve the use of <b>armed</b> resistance to obtain recognition of their rights. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Their view is that George III has been misled by his counselors. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> he <b>Declaration</b> of <b>Arms</b> was approved by the Second Continental Congress on July 6, 1775.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.earlyamerica.com /earlyamerica/milestones/decofarms</font> (184 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://suvcw.org/co/history.htm">Historical ResourcesLinks of Interest</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>Declaration</b> of the <b>Causes</b> and <b>Necessity</b> of <b>Taking</b> <b>up</b> <b>Arms</b> (1775) (drafted by John Dickinson of Delaware) was intended to inform the world of the reasons why the colonies had taken <b>up</b> <b>arms</b> against England. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The Virginia <b>Declaration</b> of Rights (1776) was the first Bill of Rights written into a state constitution and served as the basis for the first ten amendments to the U. Constitution. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>Declaration</b> of Independence (1776) (drafted by Thomas Jefferson of Virginia) noted that nature's laws permit a people to <b>declare</b> independence from a corrupt government and went on to specify the corrupt actions of England that had led the United States of America to <b>declare</b> their independence.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>suvcw.org /co/history.htm</font> (2646 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.webcabcomponents.com/library/humanities/history">WebCab Library : Humanities : Histories</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> If you ask the average student in the typical city, the response will vary, depending on his or her social status, education, family background, and a myriad of other choices. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> There were few places you could go "on line" to actually read the words that the Framers laid down in 1787, and which have stood <b>up</b> to the test of time. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The idea for this area of Free Net was originally submitted by Gerald E. Murphy, USN (Ret), of Lakewood, Ohio, and it was he that provided much of the research (and most of the typing and editing) that you are about to enjoy as you re-live the history of the United States of America.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.webcabcomponents.com /library/humanities/history</font> (517 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://publicola.mu.nu/archives/2004/07/06/july_6th_1775.html">Publicola: July 6th, 1775</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Its purpose was to explain why <b>taking</b> <b>up</b> <b>arms</b> against Great Britain was necessary. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> It was not intended to serve as a statement of independence - that'd have to wait for another year (although on May 20th, 1775 Mecklenburg County of North Carolina did <b>declare</b> Independence from Great Britain). </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> There are some notable passages but for the time being I'll let you discover them for yourself - either in the extended entry or by clicking on the link.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>publicola.mu.nu /archives/2004/07/06/july_6th_1775.html</font> (1694 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><u>BENJAMIN FRANKLIN - LoveToKnow Article on BENJAMIN FRANKLIN</u> <i>(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)</i></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> But the question of taxing the estates of the proprietors came <b>up</b> in a new form, and a petition from the assembly was drawn by Franklin, requesting the king to resume the government of Penn. sylvania. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Immediately after his return from Montreal he was a member of the committee of five appointed to draw <b>up</b> the <b>Declaration</b> of Independence, but he took no actual part himself in drafting that instrument, aside from suggesting the change or insertion of a few words in Jeffersons draft. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Franklin wrote a paper on the <b>causes</b> of earthquakes for his Gazette of the 15th of December 1737; and he eagerly collected material to uphold his theory that waterspouts and whirlwinds resulted from the same <b>causes</b>.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.1911ency.org /F/FR/FRANKLIN_BENJAMIN.htm</font> (5969 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ut/snakebite/declarationofcauses.html">Snakebite's recommended reading: Declaration of Causes</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> --The inhabitants of Boston being confined within that town by the general their governor, and having, in order to procure their dismission, entered into a treaty with him, it was stipulated that the said inhabitants having deposited their <b>arms</b> with their own magistrate, should have liberty to depart, <b>taking</b> with them their other effects. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> In our own native land, in defence of the freedom that is our birthright, and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it--for the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our fore-fathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken <b>up</b> <b>arms</b>. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>Declaration</b> of the <b>Causes</b> and <b>Necessity</b> of <b>Taking</b> <b>Up</b> <b>Arms</b> was intended by the Second Continental Congress as an explanation as to why the Colonies had taken <b>up</b> <b>arms</b> against the British Crown following the battles of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.angelfire.com /ut/snakebite/declarationofcauses.html</font> (1584 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://sheriffsteve.www6.50megs.com">My Declaration of Independence</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Necessity</b> has not yet driven us into that desperate measure, or induced us to excite any other nation to war against them.-We have not raised armies with ambitious designs of separating from Great-Britain, and establishing independent states. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> To provide for organizing, <b>arming</b>, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; 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