Declaration of Independence
IN CONGRESS, October 15th, 2018.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for women to dissolve the systemic oppression which have connected them with the government, 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, a decent respect to the opinions of womankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to desire gender equality.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are control of one’s Life, Political Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness through equal opportunity.— That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Women, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,— That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to amend it, and to institute an improved Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly, all experience hath shewn, that mankind arises disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such customs, and to provide new Guards for their future security.— Such has been the patient sufferance of women, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present Patriarch is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute division of the sexes within these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has lessened the paychecks of women though they work smarter and harder than most men. He has made women pay more for a feminine product made with the same ingredients.
He has caused women the headache of getting a job when they have more than enough qualifications listed on their resumes.
He has caused women many tears at night from feeling as though they are lesser than human through the constant mental, physical, and verbal abuse.
He has stripped women of the voice they never had when expressing concerns about important issues plaguing the world and their lives alike.
In every stage of these Oppressions We, women, have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A society whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a patriarch is unfit to be the ruling precedent of a free people. Nor have We been wanting in attention to our Male brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our capabilities and role here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. We, therefore, the Representatives of Equal Women’s Rights, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good women of the world, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Women, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent within the states; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the Male Dominance, and that all political connection between them and the oppressing thought of man, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent Women, they have full Power to equal pay, have a voice in politics, equal job opportunity, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent Women may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
Simone Griffith
Third North-East
Ashley Hart
Rubin Hall
James Fan
Lipton Hall
Deniss Leon
Goddard
Riya Jain
Third North-North
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