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New York Timesbestselling author and committed constitutional conservative Senator Mike Lee reveals the little-known stories behind the Founders takedown of a tyrannical king and the forgotten document that created America.
There is perhaps no more powerful sentence in human history, written in Philadelphia in the oppressively hot summer of 1776: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
Despite the earth-shattering power of Jeffersons simple sentence and the document in which it is found, many Americans today dont understand or appreciate the Declarations gravity. As a result, we have lost touch with much of what makes our country so special: the distinctly American belief in the dignity of every human soul.
Our nation was born in an act of rebellion against an all-powerful government. InOur Lost Declaration, Senator Mike Lee tells the dramatic, little-known stories of the offenses committed by the British crown against its own subjects. From Londons attempts to shut down colonial legislatures to hauling John Hancock before a court without a jury, the abuses of a strong central government were felt far and wide. They spurred our Founders to risk their lives in defense of their rights, and their efforts established a vision of political freedom that would change the course of history.
Lee shares new insights into the personalities who shaped that vision, such as:
*Thomas Paine, a populist radical who nearly died making his voyage from Great Britain to the colonies before writing his revolutionary pamphlet,Common Sense.
*Edmund Randolph, who defied his Loyalist family and served in the Virginia convention that voted for independence
*Thomas Jefferson, who persevered through a debilitating health crisis to pen the document that would officially begin the American experiment.
Senator Lee makes vividly clear how many abuses of federal power today are rooted in neglect of the Declaration, including federal overreach that corrupts state legislatures, the judicial system, and even international trade. By rediscovering the Declaration, we can remind our leaders in Washington D.C. that they serve us--not the other way around.

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Our Lost Constitution: The Willful Subversion of Americas Founding Document

Written Out of History: The Forgotten Founders Who Fought Big Government

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Names: Lee, Mike, 1971 author.

Title: Our lost declaration : Americas fight against tyranny from King George to the deep state / Mike Lee.

Description: New York : Sentinel, 2019. |

Identifiers: LCCN 2019003127 (print) | LCCN 2019004371 (ebook) | ISBN 9780525538578 (ebook) | ISBN 9780525538554 (hardback)

Subjects: LCSH: United States. Declaration of Independence. | United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783. | United States--Politics and government. | BISAC: HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800). | HISTORY / United States / General. | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General.

Classification: LCC E221 (ebook) | LCC E221 .L434 2019 (print) | DDC 973.3/13--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019003127

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CONTENTS
AUTHORS NOTE

Readers of my last two books will be familiar with my style of trying to bring the past to life in a way that actively engages readers beyond simply reciting facts. In some cases, this means taking some dramatic license with specific incidents or conversations. This project involved extensive research, and although the final product stays true to the facts and the vision of history that resulted from that research, some elements have been discreetly added to scene descriptions to bring them into fuller resolution for the reader. We may not know, for instance, exactly what words passed between Thomas Truxtun and Captain William Garnier of HMS Argo, but we know they encountered each other in the Caribbean, and why not give some life to what must surely have been a rousing high-seas adventure?

We twenty-first-century Americans are extremely fortunate, too, that so many primary sources from the tumultuous days of our founding have not only survived, but also been digitized and made available for all to view. Thanks to these considerable resources, it has been possible to include dialogue drawn from contemporary accounts in a number of instances, making the scenes as true to life as possible. To all of the organizations and individuals involved in that important work of cataloguing and digitizing these early American documents and resources, I extend a special thanks.

PREFACE

We hear a lot about the desperate state of American society today. The news is full of stories of divisions at home and interference from abroad and talk of indictment and impeachment. If you listen to the media, you might think America is falling apart.

These certainly are times that try the souls of nations (to paraphrase Thomas Paine, about whom we will hear much more in this book). Yet despite the challenges and controversies of the day, our nation can continue to thrive. Our system has held up miraculously well for more than two hundred yearsmaking the United States the oldest-existing nation with a constitutional government in which we, the people, elect our own leader and representatives.

Much of that success is due to the foundations of our law in the U.S. Constitution. I never stop marveling at the genius of the Constitution; thats why after law school, I went into business to defend it: as an assistant U.S. attorney in Salt Lake City, as a law clerk for Samuel Alito (today a Supreme Court justice), and currently as a member of the U.S. Senate and its Judiciary Committee. After everything Ive witnessed in these roles, I remain confident that our system of government protects people better than any other system of government the world has seen.

And yet, as much as we should all strive to preserve, protect, and defend our Constitution, the American system relies on more than the mechanics of government outlined in that documentthree coequal branches, separation of powers, and the liketo keep the country functioning. What gives life to that system is our animating spirit, readily apparent in the Constitutions preamble but which was more fully articulated eleven years before, in the Declaration of Independence.

The Declaration is certainly appreciated but too often not fully understood. Scores of students are busily engaged in the study of constitutional law, but who studies Declaration law? There are legitimate reasons for this imbalance, of course. For one thing, the Declaration is significantly shorter than the Constitution, clocking in at only 1,337 of (mostly) Thomas Jeffersons words. And technically speaking, the Declaration is not a legal documentit does not set out a legal code or contain the building blocks for a system of government. Its purpose is far simplerand perhaps even more prescient.

Jefferson details, in clear and often indignant language, all the various outrages that King George III committed against his own subjects, who just happened to live on the wrong side of the Atlantic Ocean. Just governance, as British subjects understood it, was indeed falling apart. The Declarations signers saw plainly that the decisions made by His Majestys Government violated their natural rights to life, liberty, and propertyrights that would have been upheld had they been living in Britain.

Moreover, as colonists with no representation in Parliament, our Founders and their forebears had no way to give their consent to be governed. Equal protection of rights and the consent of the governed... a simple set of principles, which proclaimed to the world a new nation which was, in the words of a great American of a later generation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

This was an unprecedented origin story for a country, and the Declaration of Independence was an unprecedented document. The truth that all men are created equal was so simple as to be self-evident, the Declaration stated (although, as we will also see, these were not Jeffersons original words). Also self-evident was the truth that all were endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

That spirit of 1776enshrining (albeit not fully achieving) the concepts of equal rights before the law and rejecting tyrannical governmentgave birth to a truly exceptional nation. It has grown into a nation that has stamped out totalitarianism around the world and remains a beacon of hope for those in search of a better life.

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