The Declaration of Independence (Recited by Tom Richey in London)
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Just because I'm in London for July 4 this year doesn't mean that I'm going to stop celebrating America. In this video, Tom Richey recites the Declaration of Independence in its entirety as he visits various sites in London.
Wait, in LONDON?!? You're a bloody Loyalist!
you are awesome!!
I am a African American of mixed race heritage who recently took a DNA test and the results were very interesting... it said my ancestry is from "early" Virginia pre-1776 (Northern area). It also shows our migration to "early" Kentucky territory to Richmond Kentucky then into Southern Ohio & Richmond Indiana. I have followed up with this and discovered my family are DNA descendants of a person who is among the original signatures of the July 4th 1776 Declaration of Independence.
WOW!
@@tomrichey it's Thomas Stone's son who I'm connected too and the Deatherage family...
tom richey i love you
Wow,
RICHEY is the man
I'm crying tears of freedom!
The only tears worth crying!
Thank you so much. Thanks to you, I got a 5 on the AP exam
Ap European history
Hope I can get a 5 xD
POWERFUL
great video pal ! very interesting your everywhere in london !
Awesome. Just freakin' awesome.
Nicely done! I could see Brits in the background going "alright alright, you already left us!!"
Haha you walked around London citing the Declaration of Independence, I love it. Talk about a kick in the nuts.
Excellent reading my friend. Spoken with great verve and manly firmness!
INDEED! One of my favorite lines of the Declaration!
Tom Richey Yeah but these same men were wealthy landlords and slave owners....
Yes some were, but most definitely, some were not, especially not slave owners.
Its my birthday today but Im english so i feel a bit conflicted about whether i should be celebrating.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! AND OF COURSE YOU SHOULD CELEBRATE!!! From what I can gather, the British are so over the loss of their North American colonies. Haha
Tom Richey Haha thanks. I suppose we are ,we still had such good trade links that we were still getting our money.
Can we take a second to acknowledge the effort it took to make this?
I wish I was in your class, man you seem like an awesome teacher.
Tom, we won, there's no need to rub it in
LOL
This as epic as it ever gets. Well spoken Richey !
LOL at the watermelon! :)))) Great work, friend! Love your videos! I learn a lot. :)
Thomas Jefferson was my 4th great granduncle. The Declaration of Independence gets my blood boiling everytime. Great reading Mr. Richey.
+Zachary Clark WOW! Jefferson has always been a hero of mine. What an honor it must be to be related to him!
Sweet! God Bless America!
Savage as fuck
I must say I am an Australian and your recited declaration of independence is inspiring its so relevant to what is going on in the western world at this very moment . This slave yearns for people to speak about freedom they way the did in those day ,thx for the vid and tell me did you recite that from memory ?
on a scale of 1-10, this is FREEDOM!!!!!!! this is rea youtube content! thx richey for helping me pass my test next Monday
You went to all the right places, a good tourist.
GO AMERICA!!
@&$% YEAH!
Applause !
Merry 4th of July, everyone !: D
So instead of the UK of A, it became the US of A..... Isn't that illegal..?
Mark Gable
It was a war of rebellion and technically illegal - yes.
1Fireskull l meant illegal in that u can't just suddenly declare yourselves independent, like if say Texas suddenly declared itself independent from the USA kind of illegal...
Also I wouldn't call it a revolution. A king wasn't overthrown. I would call it a civil war between loyalist and colonist.
I thought that the root context meaning of revolution is revolt.
1Fireskull Which was allowed since 1688 and 1215.
I was in London during July fourth last year. I got called a traitor by a yeoman warden
Haha Glad to be able to report that they've been a lot nicer to me than that!
Parker Youdontknowme Likely joking.
unlikely
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Wait till the queen hears "a never government" and considers it a threat to the kingdom :D
i heard you were matt damon's cousin
to the most passionate parts, even an "oorah" would have been OK
It's sad that we (the United States) don't recognize our own Declaration of Independence anymore. Happy Independence Day Mr. Richey!
When Lent ends, I'm sharing this on facebook, if that's OK of course.
Dat Elephant at 8:03 though... #intentional
Did people hear you and get offended? That would've been super funny
I did it in such small spurts, I don't think anyone noticed!
Tom Richey It's not something we're bothered by. Lost America, gained India, so the war has kind of faded this side of the Atlantic.
james hurd Yes, but I was on about why the war of independence had been less of a big deal over here. By the time of the loss of India, well, we were kinda broke and had a shit ton to rebuild postwar. The loss of Empire thing only really went on in the Fifties/Sixties, an whether we're over it or not is one for you to discuss.
Aww not in a British accent?
Great video. Now replace the word "He" with the words "The Supreme Court" (or SCOTUS) and see how many hits we get.
1) "He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good." SCOTUS VOIDED the 10th Amendment giving all power to "government" rather than the enumerated powers declared by the 10th Amendment.
2) "He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained" This is so common that no example need be given.
3) "He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people." By placing itself above the legislature, with the legislature answering to it, our rights as a people have been decimated.
4) "He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone,...." Read this one as inverted: He has made the legislative and executive bodies dependent on its will alone.
5) MOST IMPORTANT: "For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments" This again happened in McCulloch v. Maryland (1819).
The 10th Amendment reads: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Meaning: If a power is not granted to the federal government, the federal government does not have that power
The court DECREED:
The 10th Amendment is hereby repealed. If an amendment changes the terms of a document, the amendment is repealed, not the part of the document that the amendment intended to amend. Neither the people nor the States have a right to amend government power or tell the sovereign government what it may or may not do. People are not free, they are "subjects" of (property of) the government. States have no rights. GOVERNMENT IS NOT CONSTITUTED BY THE CONSTITUTION. IT IS CONSTITUTED BY ITS OWN LAWS (as approved by the courts). The court then set about constituting the new form of government (A COMMON LAW government that replaces the Constitutional Republic) that the court just established by saying that:
Government shall have EVERY power unless “expressly” prohibited by the Constitution; but even when a power is expressly prohibited, government may none-the-less retain that power through implied, necessary, and “incidental” powers, given the “expressed” understanding that the absence of a grant of power means the power is granted, implied means enumerated, necessary means unnecessary, and prohibited means permitted, and “he would be charged with insanity” who would think otherwise.
6) "For suspending our own Legislatures (by denying them constitutional powers), and declaring themselves (the courts) invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever." Because of the unconstitutional "judicial review", SCOTUS legislates for us in all cases whatsoever.
AP history should begin teaching the truth about American history.
3:53. Just watch it.
lmao you straight up trolling the brits
You're a cutie! :)
Thanks! :D