Episode # 132 The Declaration of "Interdependence"

The Declaration of Independence 

In Congress, July 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, 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...

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."

Record. "an unsurpast statistic" https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/record

Statistic. "1852, "a statistical statement; one numerical statistic," see statistics. From 1939 in reference to a person considered as nothing more than an example of some measured quantity. https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=statistic

Standing. "not yet cut or harvested" https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/standing

First Fruits. "First Fruits is a religious offering of the first agricultural produce of the harvest." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Fruits 

Estates of the Realm. 

• The best known system is the French Ancien Régime (Old Regime), a three-estate system which was made up of a First Estate of clergy, a Second Estate of titled nobles, and a Third Estate of all other subjects (both peasants and bourgeoisie). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estates_of_the_realm

Benefit of Clergy. "Eventually, the benefit of clergy evolved into a legal fiction " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_of_clergy

Gratuituos Bailee - https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/59146effadd7b04934340f49

Bailiff. "keeper of a royal castle" https://www.etymonline.com/word/bailiff

genesis. "the origin or coming into being of something" https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/genesis

extraterritorial. "existing or taking place outside the territorial limits of a jurisdiction" https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extraterritorial

Baggage and effects. 

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/22/288b