Happy INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!
Today may be the last one we will have as our founders intended!
1. We have no king.
2. We have freedom of speech.
3. We have freedom of, as well as from, religion.
4. We have freedom of assembly.
5. We ARE the government: We elect those we think may govern us fairly and in consonance with our Constitution. We all have the right to vote and be counted.
6. We are ALL IMMIGRANTS from different periods of history (since there were no Native American signatories on the Constitution, this remains true).
7. We have a government of checks and balances, with the President and the Executive Branch, the Congress and the Legislative Branch, and with the Supreme Court and the Judicial Branch. None is superior to the other, and each is bound by oath to serve the needs and will of the American people.
Never in our history have these things been so perilously close to utter collapse.