The Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights together constitute the Grand Moral Compromise — the negotiated peace treaty between Religion and Science that ended the medieval crime of heresy in exchange for guaranteed religious freedom , and that made Lawful Democracy with Religious Freedom the single best existing ethical form of human government. All other forms of government have lost their moral basis since this declaration of government by consent of the people. About half the world has agreed to this compromise; the other half remains at war with itself.
What follows is, first, a derivation of why this compromise is required for any moral society — from first postulates, in the manner of Spinoza and the Political Philosophers of the Enlightenment — and second, an annotated reproduction of the Declaration of Independence itself, with "King of Great Britain" replaced by "President of the United States," and 37 footnotes mapping each 1776 grievance to a specific action of the present administration. Originally written late in the second year of the first Trump administration, further perfidy has been memorialized and updated into the footnotes. The 250-year-old document reads as if it were drafted last week. It would not be unreasonable to conclude that this is by design.
