We are proud to be Americans and believe our DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE STILL APPLIES TODAY AND OUR constitution was created by our founding fathers as a protection for this great nation against destruction and from enemies from both outside our borders and within! 
We hope that you will read the modernized version of it below and refresh your understanding of what it means to live in freedom from tyranny. it is as needed today as it was at it's creation!

"Cliff Notes Declaration of Independence"

Sometimes it becomes necessary for people to dissolve the political bands which connect them with one another, because the Laws of Nature and God have given the people a sense that they are losing what is theirs.  Decent people will give reasons for the separation so here they are:

We hold these truths to be self-evident presuppositions: all people are created equal and have been blessed by their Creator with certain absolute rights: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.  Government is instituted and empowered by the people to help secure these God-given rights.

Whenever a form of government is not making that happen, it is the right of the people to alter the government or abolish it, and to organize a new government that will that will lead to a safe and happy community.  It is smart to not react on a whim; sometimes people have to put up with a lot, but when a long train of abuses and getting jerked around reduces the people to scum-like status, it is the right and duty of the people to throw off that government and to provide new guards for future security.

The Colonies have been pretty patient, but it is necessary to alter the present system of government because the present King of Great Britain has repeatedly been a tyrant jerk over the states.  For example:

He doesn’t recognize laws that are good for us

When laws are made, he has to assent to them, but he blows them off and leave them hanging

He doesn’t allow laws for large groups of people unless they give up their right to representation which is crazy tyrant-like leadership

He calls government to meetings with lots of hoops and red tape, just to wear people out

He dissolved government offices for opposing him.

He doesn’t allow others to be elected, so things get crazy with no leadership

He tries to keep the colonies small, hurting immigration

He obstructs establishing new courts/judges

He makes judges/courts dependent on the King’s wishes.  He holds their paychecks

He creates new offices that harass people

He keeps armies around to intimidate; the military becomes superior to civil power

On the international scale, he seeks to subject us to foreigners

He keeps large bodies of armed troops among us.  If soldiers are accused of wrong doing, the King protects them.

He cuts off our trade with all parts of the world

He imposes taxes without our consent

A lot of time, he deprives us of trial by jury

He transports us to Britain for stupid offenses

He abolishes laws we set up and government we establish

He suspends colonial legislatures and legislates “for us”

He does not protect us, but wages war against us

He has messed with our land, boats, town…and the lives of people

He is hiring mercenaries to keep attacking and intimidating us

He has forced colonists taken captive to kill their own

He has got the Indians to attack us too

In every stage of these oppressions, we have humbly asked for redress, but we are constantly blown off and things have gotten worse.  A tyrant is unfit to rule a free people.  We’ve warned the British legislature of taking unwarranted jurisdiction over us.  We reminded them of our history of coming to America.  We’ve sought common ground with our brothers, but it has fallen on deaf ears.  So they are choosing to be enemies in war while we’d prefer to be friends in peace.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, appealing to God, the Supreme Judge of the world, do, in the name and authority of the good people of the colonies, publish and declare, that these united colonies are, and ought to be, free and independent states.  We no longer have allegiance to the British crown.  All political connection between the colonies and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved. 

We, as free and independent states, have the power to levy war, conclude peace, make alliances, establish commerce, and do all all the kinds of things that free states do.  And for the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of Divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.  

John Hancock, President

and 54 others…