Welcome to the official site of Montana free
state - a republican form of government of, by, and for the
people - in union with the Republic for the united States
of America
The United States shall
guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of
Government ...
~ Article IV, Section
4,
Constitution for the United States of America
All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as
long as they please; and in case of intolerable oppression,
civil or religious, to leave the society they belong to, and
enter into another.
~ Samuel Adams, November 20,
1772
A Review of the 1776 Declaration of
Independence
Looking at the first two paragraphs, we find
(emphasis added):
When in the course of
human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve
the political bands which have connected them with another, 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 mankind requires that
they should declare the causes which impel them to the
separation.
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; that, to secure these rights, governments are
instituted among men, 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 abolish it, and to institute new
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 shown that mankind are more 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 government, and to provide new
guards for their future security. Such has been the
patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the
necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems
of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain
is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having
in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over
these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid
world.
The questions before 'We The People' today
include:
Are the
evils still sufferable?
Is it
not time, to do our duty, and provide new guards for
our future security?
If not
now ... then WHEN ... should we return to our
republic[an] roots?
To assist in
answering these, and many more questions, see our History, Books, and
Web Sites pages.
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