As President Lincoln stated in this Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861:
"The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776."

J.M. Balkin, Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment, Yale Law School wrote:
“What is the point of constitutional government in the United States of America? It is the eventual redemption in history of the principles of our founding document. I do not mean the written Constitution of 1787. I mean the Declaration of Independence of 1776. American constitutionalism is and must be a commitment to the promises the Declaration makes about our future as a people. Our country sprang forth from a revolution in political and social structure. The Declaration explains the point of that revolution, and hence the point of our constitutional enterprise.”

Perhaps Kagan’s opposition to the Declaration of Independence exposes the fact that while liberals claim to support the fact that all men are created equal, they neither legislate nor rule in accordance with this stated belief.

Lincoln said, “On the question of liberty, as a principle, we are not what we have been. When we were the political slaves of King George, and wanted to be free, we called the maxim that "all men are created equal" a self evident truth; but now when we have grown fat, and have lost all dread of being slaves ourselves, we have become so greedy to be masters that we call the same maxim "a self evident lie."
–August 15, 1855 Letter to George Robertson

One of the key differences between the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution is that it is the Declaration of Independence that affirms that we are “all men are created equal” and endowed by our “Creator” with unalienable rights.

Kagan and the Obama administration will strip away our individual rights because they believe it is not God who grants rights but government.  Thus Government decides who is allowed rights and under what conditions.

This is exactly why our nation was founded, this is what the Declaration of Independence is fighting against, this is why the Obama Administration will nullify the Declaration of Independence … And this is why we must resist tyranny!

What kind of men were they?

• Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists
• Eleven were merchants
• Nine were farmers and large plantation owners
• Men of means, well educated, deeply religious, understanding their destiny
  

Five signers were captured by the British during the Revolutionary War, and endured ill treatment and deplorable conditions.

• George Walton was captured after being wounded while commanding militia at the Battle of Savannah in December 1778.
• Thomas Heyward, Arthur Middleton, and Edward Rutledge were taken prisoner at the Siege of Charleston in May of 1780.
• Richard Stockton was “dragged from his bed by night” by local Tories for signing the Declaration of Independence and imprisoned in New York City’s infamous Provost Jail (“the engine for breaking hearts”).  Stockton was the only signer to recant his signature after suffering physical and psychological abuse in jail.
  
  

Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. 

Abraham Clark saw two of his sons captured by the British and incarcerated on the prison ship Jersey. 

John Witherspoon saw his oldest son, James killed in the Battle of Germantown in October 1777.  

Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships captured or sunk from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts losing most of his wealth.

Thomas McKean was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.

Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Hart, Morris, Livingston, Ellery, Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Rutledge, and Middleton.

At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson, Jr., noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. He quietly urged General George Washington to open fire on his home which still bears the marks of the shelling.

Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed for signing the Declaration of Independence, and the British jailed his wife.
John Hart was driven from his wife’s bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished.

They believed that every person in these United States has a God given right to their Life, Liberty and to pursue Happiness.  Moreover, they understood that when a government no longer protected these rights to ensure their Safety and Happiness it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it and to institute a new Government.

Again Americans find themselves living under a government that does not listen to the will of the people, it acts as if it endows rights instead of God.  The courts nullify the results of the people’s legal elections in favor of their values rather than our nations Law.  This government enacts excessive taxation without representation, excessive debts on future generations, and overtakes private industry without legal standing.

Our Founders found it necessary to abolish their government and replace it with a wholly new one.  It is now our moral obligation and just responsibility to alter our existing government so that it more closely aligns with the original of the Founders.

It is now the destiny of this generation to serve our future generations and the world by fulfilling our role as the Sustainers of this great nation.