Without inalienable Rights, Fundamental Principles (RULES) dispassionately and uniformly abided NO ONE IS SAFE or free

When a nation’s leaders, major powers and their cohorts have no common demonstrable commitment to (and are clearly contemptuous of) inalienable, universal principles (moral, civil or humanitarian law) — total chaos and crime RULE THE DAY at home and abroad. 

A world in which all people, institutions and fundamental principles are subjected and surrendered to the whims of “man”— the criminal (immoral, illicit, scandalous) caprice, all-round impunity of “man” (one or more individuals of whatever shape or form) — NO ONE IS SAFE, let alone free.

In a recent article, Eric London observes the collapse of “legal and constitutional foundations of the (United States of America) … under the weight of (an) oligarchy” whose “accumulation of wealth” takes preeminence over America’s founding, revolutionary, long fought for (small d) “democratic principles.”

As all substance comes undone, all history is upended, London asks, rhetorically (citing area of lawlessness or criminal caprice), “If the president (of the United States) can violate one provision of the Constitution, why not violate them all?

“If the president can appoint cabinet members without a vote in the Senate, why not appoint Supreme Court justices in the same way?

“Why allow the Senate to vote on ratifying treaties?

“Why allow Congress the power to declare war?

“Why not supplant constitutional power of the legislature with absolute power to the executive (the president), thus “eliminating the legislature’s power to override a presidential veto with a two-thirds majority?” (Eric London, November 19, 2024, “The dictatorial threat of Trump’s recess appointment plan” https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/11/19/hbqh-n19.html)

Mr. London and I base our arguments on slightly different foundations, but the concern is mutual. I know, as does he, that US laws are well established, well documented, and rooted in founding documents created by men who, in my view, were far better men than the contemporary crop. 

A Nation, One Nation

MUST be 

Bound by Law

Let's take a walk down US history lane

1776

Charges against the King of Great Britain, Declaring American Independence

“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.…

“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 meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

“He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose, obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration 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 harass our people and eat away 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 neighboring 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 complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & (betrayal) scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation….”

Final Declaration
(excerpt)

“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;… 

“Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and … all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved….” Declaration of Independence: A Transcription. In Congress, July 4, 1776, https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript

“The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America …

“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 (lead to, bring about or result in) 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 shown, 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.…”

1777

The Articles of Confederation, adopted by the Continental Congress on November 15, 1777, and in effect from March 1, 1781, through 1789, served as the first constitution of the United States https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/articles-of-confederation

Under the Articles of Confederation, America’s first national government, the states acted together only for specific purposes. The 1787 American Constitution “united its citizens as members of a whole, vesting the power of the union in the people.” https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution

1782

E pluribus unum - Thirteen letters (thirteen colonies)

An Act of Congress in 1782 adopted E pluribus unum (Out of many, One) as Motto for the Seal of the United States of America

1787

The Constitution of the United States: A Transcription
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript

Article I - Section 1

“All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.”

Article I - SECTION 8
(excerpt)

The Congress shall have Power

• To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States…

• To establish uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States…

• To establish Post Offices and post Roads…

• To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water

• To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years

• To provide and maintain a Navy

• To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces

• To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions

• To provide for organizing, arming, 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; … And …

• To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

Article II - SECTION 2
(excerpt minor edit for clarity)

By and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, The President of the United States shall have Power to make Treaties—provided two thirds of the Senators present concur.

The President of the United States “shall nominate—and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate—shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law…”

Regarding “inferior Officers,” … the Congress may by Law, (and) as they think proper, vest the appointment of such officers …, in the President alone (or) in the Courts of Law or in the Heads of Departments.” National Archives America’s Founding Documents “The Constitution of the United States: A Transcription” https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript

Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence [not meaning to commit war crimes or attacks on other nations’ sovereignty], promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

The rule of law does not rule if it is not abided uniformly and dispassionately by all FOR ALL no matter how high placed or lowly employed. There must be checks and balances, oversight; and, on the part of the citizenry, clear-sightedness, sound knowledge (not internet gossip), and the refusal 

to accept the unacceptable 

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Former Congresswoman Breaks with Destructionists

Warns of Reigning Extremists set on Destroying from within and without

“I love our country.

“Our God-given rights of freedom, life, and liberty enshrined in our Constitution and Bill of Rights are my inspiration.”

 

Conscience, Cause of Action (charges)

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ar Machine, Perpetual Aggression

 Today’s Democratic Party led by warmongers firmly in the grips of the military industrial complex and recklessly leading America and the world to the brink of nuclear war lacks care or concern about the consequences—costs of war, and who pays the price. 

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awlessness: disavowal of institutions of justice, societal order and proper discipline The Party in exclusive service to its “partisan political ambitions” has repeatedly

• · “Weaponized the security state and Federal law enforcement”
• · Arrogantly demeaned “people of faith and spirituality”
• · Created hostile presence against police while excusing crooks
• · Demonized and dismissed the United States’ highest court (the US justice system and justices  also the International Criminal Court) as “illegitimate.”
  

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uppression: a Neo-McCarthyism

The Party in its weakness, cowardice, and peculiar practice of public-private partnering—working “hand-in-glove with corporate for-profit media and Big Tech to smear and silence political opponents and those who dare to challenge their authority—demonstrates its contempt for Americans and for protected freedoms (particularly of speech) enshrined in the Constitution of the United States of America.

The Party “ideology … of hate and divisiveness” exposes their disavowal of principles associated with a “traditional liberalism”— principles such as “the basic goodness of people, the autonomy of the individual; support of civil liberties, and government of, by, and for the people.”

 

At her website posting, Tulsi Gabbard says

“I’ve dedicated my entire adult life to serving our country. What I care about is the truth and what’s right. I don’t fit into any box, and you’ll find me hard to label. I have a simple message: let’s do what’s best for the American people, our country, and the planet.” (Emphasis added)

“I love our country. Our God-given rights of freedom, life, and liberty enshrined in our Constitution and Bill of Rights are my inspiration. I answered the call to duty and took an oath, dedicating my life to supporting and defending those freedoms, both in uniform and in public office.”

Biographical sources show Tulsi Gabbard’s nineteen years of US Military Service (continuing) which have included deployments to Africa and Western Asia; the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, awards to include “Combat Medical Badge,” and “Meritorious Service Medal.”

Her Civilian Service includes

• Member of the Hawaii State House of Representatives (2002-2004)
• Legislative Aide to US Senator (Chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee) Daniel Kahikina Akaka of Hawaii (2010-2012)
• Member of the City Council of Honolulu, Hawaii (2010-2012)
• Member of the Congress of the United States (Committee memberships Armed Services, Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, 2013- 2021)
• Candidate for the US Presidency (2020)
• Lieutenant Colonel, Civil Affairs officer in the U.S. Army Reserves (present)

“I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party,” Gabbard declared.

In her biographical notes is the affirmation that Tulsi Gabbard 

“Puts country before party; and approaches every issue—domestic and foreign—based on ensuring the safety, security, and freedom of the American people.” 

 

[Text minor edited for present composition]

Sources
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/G000571
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsi_Gabbard
https://tulsi.substack.com/about

Gabbard, Tulsi, “Why I’m leaving the Democratic Party,” circa October 11, 2022 https://tulsi.substack.com/

 

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rings to Mind a Great American Moment

Separation and Cause (An excerpt)

“[W]hen a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce [the people] 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.”

Cause (charges)

“He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.”

“He has dissolved Representative Houses, repeatedly, for opposing … his invasions on the rights of the people.”

“He has refused for a long time … to cause others to be elected… (thus exposing the State) to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.”

“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….”

“He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass 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 (Civilian) 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.”

From the top

“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 … 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 (to secure, bring about) their Safety and Happiness.” (Emphasis and synonyms added)

Except from one of our greatest documents: Declaration of Independence
In Congress, July 4, 1776: “The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America” 

 

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HINK!

Think of destructionist and tyranny in contexts other than ancient and not so ancient Colonialism. 

Think of tyranny personified in a two-headed political party and worse a singular domineering party. And ask what ought I to do?

What is my citizenry duty? In contemporary times with so many technological gadgets and platforms, and communications enablers—How do I call our nation to Unity? Break the bonds of tyranny? Demand law, discipline, and order among the higher echelon as well as among the masses?

Blame and complain will change nothing.

How do we establish and insist on participation of multiple political parties, dissent, debate, and independent thought and action (together with respectfulness and proper civility), and no-money (no-greased palms)-required access to public forums, discussion and debate, and candidacy and place on the ballot?

How do we dissolve or disband the incestuous cabal, the tactics, and the instruments of tyranny? How do we work to reestablish and improve Conscience and the Union of the United States of America?

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Critical Advances, History’s Chapters Written and co-written by Americans

1776-1948

American Declaration of Independence 1776

(Excerpt, minor edit for presentation)

Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States (Colonies) of America

In Congress, July 4, 1776

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e hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights …, among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

[T]o secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

[W]henever 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 [achieve] 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 [shown] 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.

Constitution of the United States 1787

(Preamble excerpt, minor edit)

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e the People of the United States—in order to form a more perfect Union

• Establish Justice

• Insure domestic Tranquility,

• Provide for the common defense

• Promote the general Welfare, and

• Secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity— 

Do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

“Declaration of Sentiments” 1848

Declaration of Rights and Sentiments

Seneca Falls Conference

Signatories: 68 women, 32 men

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, two American activists in the movement to abolish slavery called together the first conference to address Women’s rights and issues in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. Part of the reason for doing so had been that Mott had been refused permission to speak at the world anti-slavery convention in London, even though she had been an official delegate. Applying the analysis of human freedom developed in the Abolitionist movement, Stanton and others began the public career of modern feminist analysis.

Declaration of Sentiments also known as the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments

(Excerpt minor edit, language update)

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e hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal

[T]hat they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights …., among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness;

[T]o secure these rights governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of those who suffer from it to refuse allegiance to it, and to insist upon the institution of a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect [achieve] 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 shown that [human]kind 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 duty to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.

Such has been the patient sufferance of the women under this government, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to demand the equal station to which they are entitled.

The history of [human]kind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

“House Divided Speech” 1858

Abraham Lincoln, lawyer, Whig Party leader then Republican Party leader, legislator in Illinois House of Representatives and US House of Representatives, 1858 principal debater in “Lincoln-Douglas” debates

(Excerpt)

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. …‘A house divided against itself cannot stand.’…

I do not expect the Union to be dissolved—I do not expect the house to fall—… [;] I do expect it will cease to be divided. … 

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e shall not fail—if we stand firm, we shall not fail.

Wise councils may accelerate or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later the victory is sure to come.

“Gettysburg Address” 1863

US President Abraham Lincoln

(Excerpt, minor edit)

“Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated [conceived in Liberty, dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal] can long endure. …

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t is for us the living…to be dedicated … to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.

It is … for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us…[;] that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948

Eleanor Roosevelt, a lead drafter

In a time increasing East-West tensions, “Eleanor Roosevelt used her enormous prestige and credibility with both superpowers [the USSR and the USA] to steer the drafting process of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights toward its successful completion.”

Writer, diplomat, activist, and former First Lady (1933-1945) of the United States, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, the first Chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights (appointed delegate to the UN General Assembly by US President Harry Truman in 1946), “played an instrumental role in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”

The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed this Universal Declaration of Human Rights “as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.” (Excerpt from preamble)

Declaration recognizes and proclaims 

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he inherent dignity and … equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world

• [That] disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind

• [That] the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people

• [That] … if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression—it is essential … that human rights should be protected by the rule of law

• [That] it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations

• [That] the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom

• [That] Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in cooperation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms

• [That] a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge

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urely in our time—instead of festering resentments and opening wounds, tearing down statues and putting up walls, tearing apart relationships and preventing good relations—we can write new chapters; cooperate in writing critical chapters that will further advance, substantively advance, humankind.

Sources

US Archives Declaration of Independence: A Transcription in Congress, July 4, 1776

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript

Constitution of the United States Created September 17, 1787, presented September 28, 1787

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preamble_to_the_United_States_Constitution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States#Original_frame

Modern History Sourcebook: The Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls Conference, 1848

Internet History Sourcebooks Project, History Department of Fordham University, New York The Internet Medieval Sourcebook and other medieval components of the project are located at the Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies. https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/senecafalls.asp

Also: NEH https://edsitement.neh.gov/closer-readings/declaration-sentiments-seneca-falls-conference-1848

Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/exhibitions/women-fight-for-the-vote/about-this-exhibition/seneca-falls-and-building-a-movement-1776-1890/seneca-falls-and-the-start-of-annual-conventions/declaration-of-sentiments/

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence

Abraham Lincoln Online “House Divided” Speech Springfield, Illinois June 16, 1858

Lectern in Representatives Hall, Old State Capitol, Springfield, Illinois, Representatives Hall Lectern

http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/house.htm

Gettysburg Address https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address

United Nations The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/

“The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights. Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on December 10, 1948 (General Assembly resolution 217 A) as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations. It sets out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected and it has been translated into over 500 languages.”

Also “Women Who Shaped Universal Declaration of Human Rights” https://www.un.org/en/observances/human-rights-day/women-who-shaped-the-universal-declaration

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