Dakota Beacon

Another great history lesson from Dakota Beacon author Bruce Walker, writing on The American Thinker today to remind us that forgotten in the fog of our current political rhetoric is the real purpose of the Declaration of independence….to establish that Government’s Purpose is Liberty

The men who signed the Declaration of Independence represented the absolute opposite of “interest group politics” so slavishly worshipped in political science departments.  They pledged their lives, their wealth, their liberty, and their honor—everything—on a toss of the dice.  Often, even if the revolution won, these men personally lost.  The game was not about them, their economic interest, or their political ambition.  They won if America became a new order of liberty in the world.  Interest politics would have led them all to make peace with the Crown.  Moral principles led them to what Churchill would later call “blood, toil, sweat, and tears.”