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
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