Back in 1776, the representatives of the United States of America, in a general congress, appealed to the Supreme Judge of the world in their petition against the British crown, to which, the outcome, after seven years and many battles was for the United States of America, to become a free and independent people created in a new birth of freedom as a country. Since that time, many things have occurred within our nation, some great, and some not, to which, given the present state of America, it can be asked as to whether we as a people currently live under the principles of our Declaration or whether, instead, we live under some sort of reduced and pathetic subset of such.
Our Declaration of Independence made many specific accusations in regards to the king of Great Britain and his tyranny against the colonists. In looking at today's world, a list could be submitted that too would show a long record of usurpations and injuries to the people. For instance, the Government has set aside a Supreme Court of nine unelected justices, nominated by the President to the Supreme Court for which the President makes it his policy that said nomination is in agreement with the political party that championed the President as their candidate. This means that rather than these Supreme Court justices being free of ties and impartial, they are in fact, chosen for their political ideology, and further, their decisions, as a matter of course, are binding on all States and citizens, to which it is the Supreme Court that makes law, overrules law, re-interprets law, and thereby consistently overturns and replaces law of long-standing popular favor of the people, because these justices are in effect, the law.
Furthermore, this Government has created a powerful and permanent military force that is both a drain upon the public weal as well as making it Governmental policy to influence, disrupt, or get involved with wars with foreign principalities whether covert or overt. Further, the military has explicitly or implicitly become intertwined with domestic police forces and spy agencies so as to place the people as a whole, in imminent danger of living within or being subject to an effective police state, which subverts, contravenes or endangers all of our Constitutional rights, as well as our life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
Additionally, the coin of the realm, is controlled not by the States or by the people, nor even by the Federal government, but is instead in the hands of certain powerful and unelected banking establishments. These banks control and set the interest rates that will be charged to borrowers, the supply of the money, and the intended inflation rate of the money issued. Their power is so great that recessions and depressions are at their command, so as to enrich the few at the expense of the many.
Then there is the taxes imposed under the people under the semantic term of "voluntary", a word that if taken at his face value, would mean that the people have a choice as to how much that they wish to voluntarily surrender to the Government in payment of tribute, but in actuality, this is not the case at all. The tax code is, in fact, deliberately byzantine so as to favor selected persons within America and is effectively structured in such a manner that those citizens simply trying to adhere to democratic law pay considerably more than their "fair" share.
These are the conditions of our life that we are subject to. Our master is no longer the king of Great Britain, who when he ruled us, ruled us from abroad and with a somewhat tolerant hand. Today, our master is omnipresent, omnipotent, and insatiable to which we are the huddled masses, tired and poor, yearning for re-admission through the golden door that once admitted all.