"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.
The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is
wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts
they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions,
it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ...
And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not
warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of
resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as
to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost
in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from
time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It is its natural manure."

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ORIGINAL: FirmhandKY
Hell, all you have to do is look back at some of the things said during the Bush admin to see a lot worse.

Firm

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Now you can read into that anything you wish...bu to try to sell me that it purports to guarentee a "right to revolt" against a freely elected representative gov'mt is just so much bullshit.

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ORIGINAL: Moonhead

The comments about trains are cute as well: who the hell still uses trains for freight deliveries in the 'States apart from the nuclear power generators?

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ORIGINAL: Icarys

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Now you can read into that anything you wish...bu to try to sell me that it purports to guarentee a "right to revolt" against a freely elected representative gov'mt is just so much bullshit.

I suppose the opposing country thought the very same thing.

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ORIGINAL: slvemike4u

Firm,I have read the Document,and as such I know it was intended as a declaration putting forth the justification for Independence from the British Empire.Nothing more nothing less.Hell the tittle of the document proclaims exactly what it is....a Declaration of Independence of a heretofor subjucated peoples.
Now you can read into that anything you wish...bu to try to sell me that it purports to guarentee a "right to revolt" against a freely elected representative gov'mt is just so much bullshit.

"Governments are instituted ..." (plural)

"That whenever any Form of Government ..."  Notice the "any".

"Governments long established should not be changed ..." (plural)

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ORIGINAL: FirmhandKY

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ORIGINAL: flcouple2009

Where exactly in the "Declaration of Independence" does it guarantee you the right to revolt? 

I tell you what.  You grab a group of your friends, arm yourself, head down and take over your state government and tell them the "Declaration of Independence" says you can take over.  See how far that gets you.

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 shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, 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.

Perhaps you and your cohorts should actually ... well, ... yanno ... READ the Declaration of Independence, before making claims about what it does, or does not contain.

Firm