Declaration of Restoration

Of the Necessity of Restoration in the Moral Rightness of Society

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also published at “E.M. Burlingame from Shouldering Giants” emburlingame@substack.com

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When, …….., the systems instituted for the common benefit come, through a long course of abuses, to invert their own purposes, and to perpetuate not the prosperity but the servitude of a people, ……..

…….. while men are unequal in talents and fortune, they are all endowed with an innate sense of personal agency, a proper regard for the fruits of their industry, and a claim to the equitable consideration of their fellows. That to secure these natural expectations, governments and economies are established among men, deriving their just authority from their utility in promoting the safety and happiness of the society. That whenever any such system becomes destructive of these ends, it is both the right and the duty of the people, ……., to examine its errors, to strip it of its usurpations, and to reconstitute its powers on such foundations as may seem most likely to effect their lasting security and tranquillity.

..……Prudence, ……

………. when a long train of systematic oppressions, all tending toward the same invidious object, reveals a deliberate design to reduce a people under absolute economic despotism—by converting public institutions into instruments of private rapacity, by confounding honest industry with parasitical speculation, and by alienating the patrimony of the polity from its rightful stewards—it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such a system, and to provide new guards for their future security ……...

……….The history of the present financial order, and its centuries-old governmental regime, is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, enslavements, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over the economic life of the nation.

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They have perverted the institutions designed for the common defence into mechanisms for the private accumulation of power, thereby inverting the very purpose for which they were established.

They have erected an empire of financial abstraction, defended by legal artifice, which wages a silent war upon the productive capacities of the people and evades the natural checks of a free society.

They have infiltrated the economies of nations, converting public resources and the common heritage into collateral for perpetual debts, thereby enslaving the industry of the present and future to the avarice of the few.

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They have entangled populations in webs of unpayable obligation, often through the calamity of war, condemning posterity to inherit not liberty, but bondage ………..

They have, ……….., permitted the poisoning of the common elements of life, weakening the vigour and resolution of the people.

They have subverted the courts of justice, using the forms of law to frustrate its spirit, and dissolving the just claims of the injured in a labyrinth of procedure favourable only to power.

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They have degraded the seats of learning, turning them …… into mills of a uniform and servile doctrine.

They have monopolized the channels of public discourse, ………….

They have, by covert influence, compelled the governors of men to legislate the transfer of wealth from the many to the few, …….

They have erected systems of surveillance ……….

They have formed a transnational interest, rivaling in power the states themselves, whose sole aim is its own perpetuation and enrichment, regardless of the ruin of nations.

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……….increasing dependence whilst pretending to alleviate it.

They have corrupted the administration of justice, ...........

And most grievous to the moral sense, ……. They have corrupted the moral sentiments of the young, teaching them to despise …….. the inherited wisdom of their ancestors, promoting a ……. distemper of the mind and body that severs the sacred chain of generations.

In every stage of these oppressions, we have petitioned for redress ……. Our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated and escalating injury. A system of governance so wholly subverted to such ends, which bears every mark of a tyranny, is unfit to rule ……..

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……………… free and independent of the tyranny of the financial world order; that they are absolved from all allegiance to its artificial claims; and that all political and economic connection between them and the system of financial despotism, is and ought to be, totally dissolved. In this restoration, we pledge our fidelity to our civilization, its sacred lands, and its accumulated treasures.

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