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I have sworn upon the alter of God eternal hostility against every
form of tyranny over the mind of man. Thomas Jefferson
When a person truly speaks from their soul what she or he says or does is completely selfless, resulting in clear benefits for everyone. This looks different for each soultype. SoulType 7, for example, looks for and sustains the vision that is needed to help each individual find and follow his or her personal path. 7s do this by quieting their minds, finding what is called the still point - the place where all dimensions meet - so that all possibilities become open to them. This lets them gather the necessary components that combine to reveal the path for you to follow.
Until 1789 national governments had been based on the rule of a king or queen or a religious leader. Ours was the first nation based on an idea since the time of the Greek city states. Thomas Jefferson, more than any other person, is responsible for finding and holding the vision and the ideas on which this country is based. His was a brand-new experiment that had been written about but never before attempted. Jefferson brought this vision alive as the sole author of the Declaration of Independence. He furthered this process when he saw that personal freedoms were being ignored which spurred him to run for president in 1800. He won and succeeded in steering the country back on course and gave it the time needed to develop a stable democracy.
Richard B. Morris in the book "Making of a Nation" outlines how new and radical this concept was that Jefferson helped to make a reality.
The Declaration was a persuasive, eloquent and unforgettable statement of the "causes" which forced the colonies to dissolve their "political bands" and "to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them." It was a truly explosive combination of skillful propaganda and trenchant political reasoning. It was a ringing assertion of the right to revolt, carefully erected upon the principle that government ultimately rests upon the consent of the governed. It enumerated the significant personal rights that public government must preserve, rights which embraced life, liberty and "the pursuit of happiness," the last a felicitous phrase covering individual liberty, freedom of vocational choice, and full property rights.
Perhaps the way the Declaration raised the sights and objectives of the Revolution was even more important than its enunciation of broad democratic principles of government and of self-determination. The Declaration set a new standard for a free society. Granted the phrase "all men are created equal" did not accurately describe the America of 1776, where about a half million persons-one fifth of the entire population-were held in slavery, and granted that a good many of the signers must have accepted this phrase with silent reservations, the Declaration nevertheless represented a lofty ideal and a long-range goal. As Lincoln later said of the founding fathers, "They meant to set up a standard maxim for a free society, which could be ... constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence and augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people of all colors everywhere." Of all our nobly phrased historic documents, the Declaration has become the most cherished expression of the American dream. p36-37
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