The Legal Right to Alter or Abolish Government - #NationalDivorce
The Virginia Declaration of Rights
Ask around today and you’ll find most people treat rebellion like a relic – something you read about in school, never something you do. That wasn’t how George Mason saw things. On June 12, 1776, he put the right to overthrow government into law – bold, unapologetic, and binding.
This wasn’t the language of a protest movement or the fine print of a petition. The Virginia Declaration of Rights didn’t ask permission. It made the right to alter or abolish government explicit. If government stops doing its job, the people step in and take charge.
Most Americans have never even heard of this document. That’s no accident. Schools and politicians would rather you remember slogans than the law that made those slogans real.
THE ROAD TO JUNE 1776
To understand how radical Mason’s declaration really was, you have to back up a few months.
Long before the rest of the colonies signed off on independence, Virginia was operating as an independent country.
The colonial governor had fled after the burning of Norfolk in January 1776. With the king’s man gone, the Governor’s Council and House of Burgesses dissolved themselves and reorganized as the …
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