Fourth July was marked for 249 years since the 13 American colonies rejected a British monarch and embraced freedom. But while we entered this earth for the first days of the 250th year, it feels like we are going in the wrong direction.
The declaration of independence was a daring (although clearly never fully realized) statement of equality and democratic ideals. Thomas Jefferson wrote that governments “derive their righteous powers from the permission of the ruled” – the people of the United States would decide our own fate, not a person’s subject.
But in the past six months all three branches of the government have caused serious damage to those ideals. And in just in recent weeks we have seen our government the core values of the declaration of independence.
“To suspend our own legislators and the explanation of themselves invested with power to legislation in all cases for us.”
An extensive poster collage contains a printed profile of the face of Donald Trump with a crown painted on top of his head, flanked by two images of the face of Liberty’s face and the expression “no king” during a demonstration in New York City on June 14, 2025. (John Senter/Universal Images Group via Getty)
The animating idea behind the American revolution and the constitution that eventually emerged was that people were in charge of representatives. President Donald Trump has not suspended our legislators, but he has moved to put them aside and to take the power to legislation for himself.
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Last week alone, the last end game saw for USAID, dismantled by the president despite conference authorization. The Ministry of Education refuses to distribute billions of congress dollars in state schools. And the administration suggested Los Angeles because he refused to use his own resources to help Ice’s violent arrests.
In just the last few weeks, the Ministry of Justice accused a member of the congress after a supervisory visit to an immigration detention facility and federal agents who call Senator Alex Padilla, D-Calif., To ask for secretary of Homeland Security Kristi at a press conference.
“He has impeded the court of justice … he only made judges dependent on his will …”
We have no rights if the president will not follow the law for sure, and therefore the founders acknowledged the importance of an independent judiciary.
Nevertheless, President Trump brutally brutally violated the laws and violated the Constitution. Numerous judges of the lower court, including those by the President himself, have excited DOJ lawyers for stealing their orders and violating the basic litigation protections that have been guaranteed by the Constitution. In some cases, the administration seemed to be openly defying the courts, such as when they refused to stop the deportations to a torture prison in El Salvador.
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More alarming, the congress and the majority of the Supreme Court seem to be eager to help. Two weeks ago, the former defense lawyer from President Trump and the current Senior Doj officer, Emil Bove, received a friendly hearing of the Senate Cycling Committee, taking into account his appointment to the third Circuit Court of Appeals. This despite a whistleblower who openly describes him about telling telling courts “f — you.”
“To transport us past seas to be tested for pretending to be violations.”
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Although the Supreme Court prevented the government to send more people to the notorious Cecot prison of El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act, they have allowed 238 Venezolans, three-quarters without a criminal, to have it been growing there since March. And only two weeks ago the court blessed the deportation of others in countries in which they never set foot without a chance to challenge that action.
“He has held among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the permission of our legislators.”
Freedom is hard to find when those who are in power can sice the army on people. The settlers kicked the British for this violation, but President Trump federalized the California National Guard without the permission of the Californian government and then entered active American Marines, and then even more Marines after the doubtful justification of the civil unrest was over.
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“He … sent here from officers to bother our people and eat their substance.”
The unique characteristic of the first six months of this administration is the use of the government forces to bother the perceived enemies of the president.
The administration escalated her war at Harvard University. It forced the resignation of the President of the University of Virginia to threaten a cut in federal financing. President Trump called for legal steps against the New York Times and CNN for their report on the Iran bombing that contradicted the president’s preferred story. Secretary called for an investigation into CNN for reporting a public app tracking app. And by keeping the approval of a merger, the administration became of the utmost importance to put $ 16 million on its interests to arrange a thoroughly deserving court case over “60 minutes” editorial decisions.
All that was in just one week.
If President Trump and his allies will reject the declaration of independence, we must use the 250th year of our country to embrace the revolutionary spirit peacefully but fiercely.
We would hardly be the first to take those values of equality and freedom and challenge America to do better. At Seneca Falls, the delegates called for the equality of women their statement of feelings about the declaration of independence.
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The most famous speech of Dr. Martin Luther King, delivered on the stairs of the Lincoln Memorial, has submitted his dream in the words of the Declaration of Independence: “We keep these truths as confident that all people are created equally.”
In this July 4, the government called our dedication to the ground of our nation of equality and government by and for the people. But that ideal is still worth fighting peacefully – in the courts, at the polls and on the street. Not to restore one of the lack of institutions that came before and during this administration, but to build a more just version of America that is Waarder for its ideals.
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