Cenocracy: A Declaration for Greater Independence
Independence Declaration Old and New

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The first transcription is denoted as the Original Declaration of Independence (Circa 1776) from the National Archives page. The transcription immediately below it is a revision for present circumstances (Circa 2015).


The Declaration of Independence: A Transcription


IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected 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 causes 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 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.--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 for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors 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 districts 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 called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause 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 mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.


The 56 signatures on the Declaration appear in the positions indicated:

Column 1
Georgia:
   Button Gwinnett
   Lyman Hall
   George Walton

Column 2
North Carolina:
   William Hooper
   Joseph Hewes
   John Penn
South Carolina:
   Edward Rutledge
   Thomas Heyward, Jr.
   Thomas Lynch, Jr.
   Arthur Middleton

Column 3
Massachusetts:
John Hancock
Maryland:
Samuel Chase
William Paca
Thomas Stone
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe
Richard Henry Lee
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Harrison
Thomas Nelson, Jr.
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Carter Braxton

Column 4
Pennsylvania:
   Robert Morris
   Benjamin Rush
   Benjamin Franklin
   John Morton
   George Clymer
   James Smith
   George Taylor
   James Wilson
   George Ross
Delaware:
   Caesar Rodney
   George Read
   Thomas McKean

Column 5
New York:
   William Floyd
   Philip Livingston
   Francis Lewis
   Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
   Richard Stockton
   John Witherspoon
   Francis Hopkinson
   John Hart
   Abraham Clark

Column 6
New Hampshire:
   Josiah Bartlett
   William Whipple
Massachusetts:
   Samuel Adams
   John Adams
   Robert Treat Paine
   Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
   Stephen Hopkins
   William Ellery
Connecticut:
   Roger Sherman
   Samuel Huntington
   William Williams
   Oliver Wolcott
New Hampshire:
   Matthew Thornton

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(The following will be placed as an updated version:)

The Declaration of Greater Independence: A preliminary description of a much larger list that others might easily add to...


IN PUBLIC, .......... 2015.

The Declaration of the People of the United States of America, and no doubt elsewhere in the world...


When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected 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 for the opinions of humanity requires that we should declare the causes which impel us to seek a separation.


We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all people 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 people, deriving their just powers from the consent of the public, —That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to administrate, alter or abolish it, and to institute a New Government (a Cenocracy), 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 has shown, that humans are more ofte disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms (of governance) to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Objective... which evinces a design to reduce us under absolute Despotism or its vagaries such as a Aristocratic Plutocracy, it is our right, it is our duty, to throw off such a Government, and to provide new Guards for our future security, happiness and progress.


Such has been the patient sufferance of the people in the United States and elsewhere in the world; and such is now the necessity which constrains us to alter our present Systems of Government. The history of the present governing structure of the United States and other governments in the world, is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over the People. To prove this, let a few examples of Facts be submitted to those in the world seeking candidness and not a perpetuation of the many illusions and delusions provided to a public for its manipulation.


  • The government has refused its Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good with Equality as the watchword... or, for example, the Equal Rights Amendment for women would be passed into law.
  • It has forbidden the public to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance to the safety and security of animals and the environment, unless suspended in their operation till its Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, it has neglected to attend to them, mangled them to utter uselessness, or caused the people to be subjected to further indifferences of having our collective Will undermined.
  • It has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Self-Representation to a Council, Legislature or single governing official, all of whom are at times out of touch with the public; being a necessary Right inestimable to us and formidable to tyrants only.
  • It has opportuned events of secrecy to affect legislation inimical to the public, thus permitting legislative bodies to practice its discussions in places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of our public support, for the sole purpose of fatiguing us into compliance with its measures.
  • It has disregarded Representative Protests repeatedly, for opposing with solemn firmness its invasions on the rights of the people.
  • It has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause the lesser of two or more evils to be elected; whereby their Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation through the Will of the People, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the People remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsive degeneracy within.
  • It has endeavoured to prevent the population of our protests; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage the migrations of our protests hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of ownership.
  • It has obstructed the Administration of Justice according to the collective Will of the People, by refusing Its Assent to Laws for establishing a Peoples Legislative Branch having a necessary means to instrumentalize "The Last Word" preeminence, by way of the collective Assent of the people.
  • It has enabled Judges to legislate laws from their bench, dependent on their Will alone, for the tenure of their offices.
  • It has enabled Legislatures the ability to determine their salaries and cost of living allowances as well as other perks and incentives, paid for by the taxes of those who do not share this ability for themselves, and may have considerably fewer benefits such as an equal level of health-care.
  • It has created laws based primarily on the collective perspective of a few, than the perspective of the whole of the Nation.
  • It has erected New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people by way of policies, procedures and civil asset forfeitures, which eat away at the substance of our confidence in the government's ability or desire to treat us all fairly, equally and judicially.
  • It has permitted a Judicial system to buttress its own illegal activities by self-support and legislative refusal to act on our behalf against those who feel their position entitles them to be above the law.
  • It has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies of self-made ideas involving acts of Terrorism, without the Consent of our investigations into its terrorist-mongering efforts in order to perpetrate some ulterior motive that is not in the best interest of the public.
  • It has given itself entitlements to define abuses of life and property as a "necessary evil" for some ill-defined greater good that we are forced to defer to, or else be subjected to various harrassments.
  • It has affected to render the All of Government independent of and superior to the Civil power of Collective consent.
  • It has permitted officials to escape prosecution for wrong doings to the Nation's own peoples or some foreign public, allowing them to retire will a full pension, and then asking for public forgiveness, no matter what atrocity has been carried out.
  • It has provided no-bid government contracts worth billions of dollars which is anti-thetical to a Democratic process for insuring fairness and equality in doling out public monies, that the public has no means of addressing any wrong doing thereof.
  • It refuses to initiate and finalize, under the auspices of the entire public, discussions concerning the adoption of a National Voting Standard which would impact the definition of what is meant by someone being accepted as a "citizen", and how their rights would be affected accordingly.
  • It refuses to accept a change in governance requiring any and all governing activities to have public oversight, in non-security sensitive areas as defined by the public, and not those wishing to extend personalized entitlements to themselves.
  • It has provided itself with the entitlement of immunity to be defined and applied as needed, while if a person in the general public asks for the same, we are at fault for seeking an equal level of equality above and beyond that which they want to solely be reserved for themselves.
  • It has deliberately refused to intervene in the commissions of crimes on the public by individuals or businesses, so that when it does intervene, it may increase its own coffers, through increased fines, because the individual or business was allowed to cheat the public out of its money or other property. Intervening too soon would only provide a small amount of money to be gathered by way of a fine.
  • It has directed the Military to withhold intervention so as to increase the depth and breath of a conflict so that simple situations can turn into complex ones that will enable it to more easily conceal various ulterior activities that are more easily hidden during moments of increased tension, confusion, and enlarged stressful conditions.
  • It has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, thus rendering the Constitution into a document foreign to the sensibilities of a people whose collective Will is denied its own Representation that should be fully acknowledged by our laws; and giving his Assent to the Acts of pretended Legislation:
    • For Quartering large bodies of deliberately perpetrated apprehensions and fears among us, to better effect excuses to be used as "credible evidence" reasons for invading privacy and instituting coercive actions which produce corrosive relations between the governed and those who govern:
    • For protecting themselves, by a mock Trial... from punishment for any Murders, Mischief or Mayhem which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States, or the innocents of numerous others abroad:
    • For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world to serve its own political interests, no matter what consequences are dished-out to the public as scraps, such as having to defer to coporate directives that remove (outsource) jobs to other countries, deposit profits in accounts external to our borders in order to evade paying taxes, and inviting those of other countries to work within our own borders under the claim of some specialized ability, so as to pay a cheaper wage and/or practice a different (lower) benefit structure as a means of undermining labor laws:
    • For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent, convened into a legality by way of legislation that We The People have never collectively aggreed to:
    • For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of a Trial by Jury equal to that which the wealthy and government officials are provided with:
    • For transporting peoples beyond Seas to be held against their will based on fabricated facts of guilt or because of mere suspicion; as well as being subjected to trials based on criteria other than a civil court, in order to render harser penalties for pretended offences... thus increasing hatred for a public that had nothing to do with such egregious strategies of confinement, segregate detention, and abuses for which, when found out, only minor employees are subjected to social scruntiny and rebuke.
    • For establishing work-place atmospheres of evility that attract like-minded individuals to its ranks, akin to giving gang members and gangsters legal authority to act out criminal or immoral impulses with impunity.
    • For effecting opportunites by way of social discord at home or abroad, that will favor the chances by which their political campaign and career donors can acquire reimbursement at percentages in the million or billion-fold range.
    • For deliberating initiating acts which cause world opinion to force it to open its borders to refugees who have no past allegiance to the Nation or its customs, bringing with them those attitudes and views that the populace thinks is detrimental to the sovereignty of the Nation, and yet the citizenry is not permitted to voice its opinion to the point for establishing any law on this or any other issue of National social importance.
    • For abolishing a purported System of Legislated Laws by permitting laws to be legislated from a Judicial Representative, such as the Supreme Court... establishing therein the acts of an Arbitrary government, and enlarging their Boundaries so as to render themselves at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into all its venues:
    • For taking away our Charters of common sense, abolishing our most valuable and vulnerable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Self-Government ideals:
    • For suspending our own Legislatures of Protest, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever, as if their position automatically bestows them with an erudite wisdom, intelligence and experience.
    • It persists in promoting itself as the best arbitrator for selecting those to abitrate between itself and its accusers who denounce its recurring actions of wrong doing, that persist decade after decade.
    • It fails to recognize and act on the realization that principles upon which the first Declaration of Independence was formulated were hypocritically practiced, and that the ensuing Constitution replicates this mentality of hypocrisy... thus creating more instances of practiced double-standards which give birth to needless conflicts of interest influenced by greed that becomes adulterated and commercialized into myriad forms of self-defeating ambivalences.
    • It has at times abdicated Government at its arbitrary implementation, by declaring us out of its Protection and waging Political War against us with the various bureaucratic armaments to affect our health, education and/or welfare.
    • It has plundered our seas of Equality, ravaged our Coasts of Liberty, burnt our towns of ownership value, and destroyed the lives of our people by its many influential machinations.
    • It has at this time transporting large Armies of both foreign and domestic Mercenaries to instigate, complicate, or complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the leader of a civilized democracy.
    • It continues to provoke a dissolution of social harmony by engaging in confidence scams tailored to our interest in affected patriotisms and respectful deference to those whose positions of authority are designed and designated first and foremost to promote the common weal (wealth), and not be used as an opportunistic stepping stone to promote personalized ulterior motives with or without a centralized regard for the citizenry.
    • It has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive by the injuries it has caused to so many innocents in different parts of the globe, forcing people of conscience to bear Arms against its tyranny, to become the executioners of that which their friends and Brethren are still disposed to illusion as being right and good, or to fall themselves by their efforts to free the people to experience a more promising formula of governance.
    • It has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our global frontiers, the merciless terrorist Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions and Protests have been answered only by the repeated injury of indifference. A government whose character is thus marked by recurring acts which may define a Tyrant or disaffected stranger, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.


Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our global brethren. We have warned our governments from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us... but to no avail. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration towards Revolution and settlement upon the repository of lands only a full measure of Democracy reveals. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow their usurpations of our rights, equality and liberty... which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. Yet, they have remained deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of humanity who practice a falsified democracy, regardless of how so named: Our Friends in Peace— Our Enemies in War.


We, therefore, Representatives seeking a Cenocracy (New Government), in our global General Congress, Assembled in spirit, appealing to the World as the Judge for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of this, solemnly publish and declare, That We The People are, and of Right ought to Free and Independent; to conduct our self-governance by way of our collective Will, that we are Absolved from all Allegiance to any false Communism, Democracy, Socialism or other form of similarly practiced government, and that all political connection between us and them, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent People, we have full collective Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent bodies of people may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence (for those who believe in such), we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.




The Following signatures on the Declaration can appear in Alphabetical Order according to global position if given... (since some people engage in an adult formula of hide-n-seek, sometimes referred to as "staying off the grid".):


Continent 1

Africa:

(Individual Nations can be listed)

Continent 2

Antarctic:

(Individual Abominable Snow-peoples can be named, whether or not they are in the military or engaged in "scientific research".)

Continent 3

Asia:

(Individual countries can be listed)



Continent 4

Australia:

(Individual countries can be listed)

Continent 5

Europe:

(Individual countries can be listed)

Continent 6

North America:

(Individual countries can be listed)

Continent 7

South America:

(Individual countries can be listed)



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Initial Beginning of page: Sunday, May 11, 2014 (Old Declaration was entered)
Initial Update of 1776 Declaration: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 (Old and new ideas were being generated.)
Major portion of Revision written on: Thursday, November 26, 2015
The names section on the bottom of the page was entered on Friday, November 27, along with a few short inclusions.
First Posting Date: Tuesday, December 1, 2015