My Response to the Unilateral Declaration of Amnesty by President Barack Obama

"If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time or die by suicide."
- Abraham Lincoln

Topic: My Response to the Unilateral Declaration of Amnesty by President Barack Obama

There were two very divergent anniversaries marked by 19 November 1862 and 20 November 1910. For the American people, it served as the 152nd anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's delivery of the Gettysburg Address following the most pivotal battle in post-Revolution history. While not perfect and indeed, a racist by today's standards, Lincoln never favored slavery, as he invoked the Declaration of Independence's most iconic message of all have the inalienable right "...to life, liberty and the pursuit of Happiness". The true irony behind the Declaration is how no mention of African slavery is present, but still as time progresses, so too did the American people. The North never claimed not to be racists because they were, virulently so. This was the first major step in declaration of the intent and not theact of gaining the final piece to the puzzle towards "one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all". Indeed the dead did not die in vain along the fields of Gettysburg, but rather established the precedent for all time that the spirit of liberty is to be cast upon all, not some, nor simply the elite. As John Adams put it best to Thomas Jefferson, the legacy of the American Revolution was realized due to our foundation upon "... the general Principle of Christianity; and the general principles of English liberty and American liberty." American liberty only was declared for those comprised of full citizenship; slaves were only counted as three-fifths per head during elections. The United Kingdom had abolished slavery 31 years prior with the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 through the British Empire with the exceptions of territories controlled by the East India Company, Ceylon and St. Helena. Ten years later, those territories too were included with the rest of the Empire's policy of emancipation. As British Common Law freed slavery, so too did federal law, only it was not the Emancipation Proclamation which did so, but rather the Thirteenth Amendment. America does not subscribed to the rule of tradition with no standard by which to apply, but the Constitution, which was our contract with government in understanding that sovereignty will for all time reside with we the people. Continue Reading ....Here