WE the PEOPLE

today the UAW is on strike

today We March for Our Lives

today that gag order was given in court

today we call out for reparations

today we face the climate catastrophe

created completely by greed

denied completely by greed

for half a century

today the poor die of pollution

produced by the privileged rich

today we pray for peace

before time before time zones

before anyone worked by the clock

A gift was given outright

the Great Law of Peace was given

to the people of the five nations

the union of the people in peace

by the Great Peacemaker

Then it was Six Nations

then the Great Law of Peace found William Penn

was adopted by him in Pennsylvania's Basic Law

“no person shall be molested or prejudiced

because of their conscientious persuasion or practice”

today we the people still stand

united in giving,

united in caring for each other

united in giving thanks

for that gift outright

the great law of peace

our union of we the people

with a firm reliance

on the protection of divine Providence

we still stand

united to each other

the Supreme Court of the United States decision

written by Chief Justice John Warren

says "the United States

is the union of the people

governed by the people

solely for the sake of the people"

400,000 Americans died

in a civil war

to keep the great gift alive-

held so precious

this union of we the people

Abraham Lincoln swore us to a vow

“that these dead shall not have died in vain,

that this nation, under God,

shall have a new birth of freedom,

government of the people, by the people, for the people,

shall not perish from the earth.”

we the people

Reverend Dr Martin Luther King, priest martyr,

brought us together, and brother Bayard Rustin,

to give an eternal voice to our promise

"I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted,

every hill and mountain shall be made low,

the rough places will be made plain,

and the crooked places will be made straight,

and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed,

and all flesh shall see it together."

"With this faith we will be able to work together,

to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together,

to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning:

My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.

Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims' pride,

from every mountainside, let freedom ring."

"From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:

Free at last. Free at last.

Thank God almighty, we are free at last."

that gift of freedom

handed down from before time

is ourselves, each other, sister brother

created equal,

endowed with unalienable rights,

Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.

We the people

with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence,

mutually pledge to each other

our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/iroquois.asp

The Constitution Of The Iroquois Nations: The Great Binding Law, Gayanashagowa

https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/iroquois.asp

William Penn, Charter of Privileges. The Frame of Government.

"first, Because noe people can be truly happy though under the Greatest Enjoyments of Civil Liberties if Abridged of the Freedom of theire Consciences as to theire Religious Profession and Worship. And Almighty God being the only Lord of Conscience Father of Lights and Spirits and the Author as well as Object of all divine knowledge Faith and Worship who only {[can]} Enlighten the mind and perswade and Convince the understandings of people I doe hereby Grant and Declare that noe person or persons Inhabiting in this Province or Territories who shall Confesse and Acknowledge one Almighty God the Creator upholder and Ruler of the world and professe him or themselves Obliged to live quietly under the Civill Governement shall be in any case molested or prejudiced in his or theire person or Estate because of his or theire Conscientious perswasion or practice nor be compelled to frequent or mentaine any Religious Worship place or Ministry contrary to his or theire mind or doe or Suffer any other act or thing contrary to theire Religious perswasion"signed William Penn Charter of Privileges Fourth Frame of Government of Pennsylvania Colony

"The government proceeds directly from the people; is "ordained and established" in the name of the people; and is declared to be ordained, "in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, and secure the blessings of liberty to themselves and to their posterity." and... is, emphatically, and truly, a government of the people. In form and in substance it emanates from them. Its powers are granted by them, and are to be exercised directly on them, and for their benefit" SCOTUS McCulloch v Maryland 1819 Chief Justice John Marshall