"We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, assembled...the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states" See Declaration of Independence
 
By conceiving the United States in HIS essence of liberty, the Creator Himself is the Progenitor and Co-Parent of the newly born nation.  "Now The LORD - Adonai is that Spirit: an where The Spirit of The LORD is, there is liberty." [II Corinthians 3:17]

Parents being, GOD and the founding fathers.
 
Seemingly the most famous portion of the Declaration is, “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.”
 
Obviously, being the primary discussion of the sacred document, We the People as body politic have not yet fully dedicated ourselves to the dictates therof, otherwise the United States would not be in this present nation-destroying crisis.

The Cause of the US Civil War: Chattel Slavery

To Liberate and Free the chattel slaves into full US citizenship "as is enjoyed by White citizens"
One hundred and fifty years ago, during the Southern Confederate Rebellion, commonly known as the US Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln and company of Radical Republicans clearly understood the significance of the nations’ Birth Certificate when he issued the Pre-Emancipation Proclamation on September 22,1862, and later followed with the official Presidential decree January 1,1863.
 
This wise and insightful move made the cause of the rebellious, bloody war being waged against the fledgling Union a matter of chattel slavery, which was casting a pall of hypocrisy and damning mockery upon the new nation.
 
This was not a good way to start a country, because such has great potential for fatal consequences in succeeding generations, which we have learned from the Civil War and continue to learn about today.
 
Lincoln recognized that the real danger confronting the Union was not that of the Southern Confederate States' Rebellion, nor even certain European intervention threats, but rather a very respectful fear of the Central Figure in the Birth Certificate, though painfully costly in national treasure, blood, lives and emotions, he nonetheless chose the path that was pleasing to HIM according to the mandates published in the Declaration of Independence.
 
The Gettysburg Admonition and Warning
According to the Judaic-Christian Holy Scriptures, the Bible, and the Declaration of Independence, Lincoln recognized that saving the Union was not possible as long the war was not based around the state and fate of the nation’s chattel slave populations and their succeeding descendants.  See Gettysburg Address
 
Lincoln and his Republican company, decided that war was not about Tenth Amendment States Rights verses Federal Big Government oversight, nor about the economy or even partisan politics, but rather the liberation of fellow human beings from the tyranny of chattel slavery and ensuring the freed slaves  an experiential citizenship "as is enjoyed by White citizens."
 
In his Gettysburg address, another landmark sacred document of policy, Lincoln admonished and warned the still at civil war nation that in order to maintain a “government of…by…and for the people", certain things in the first legal document of the United States must be adhered; one being that there must be for the new nation a “new birth of freedom”, post what occurred on July 4,1776.
 
However, accordin to Lincoln, before this "new birth of freedom" can be reality, We the People Posterity must fully dedicate ourselves to “ the great task remaining before us…”even “that cause” of the war for which over 720,000 American men and boys gave their lives with millions more wounded for life and generations to come.
 
In their suffering and blood letting, they affirmed our national Birth Certificate, the Declaration of Independence. “...that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
 
Upon examination of the Declaration, students will discover the simple of instruction as how to discern the nations’ building progress towards the “more perfect Union” that the founding fathers bequeathed to their Posterity to finish. The contents published in the Declaration of Independence is the perfection for what this nation was born to strive for and lead the world into.
 
Foot note:
Of all the ethno-racial-nationalities (legal or illegal) that have come to the United States as immigrants, only one was inherited into the jurisdiction thereof as living property. They were immediately transferred from that which is British Empire into that of the United States.
 
As property of the various citizens of Several States in the Union, by law, the West African exiles were and are yet today completely under the jurisdiction of the United States and will continue to do so as long as this New Nation shall exist.

This is especially true as long as America's business with GOD concerning chattel slavery and its aftermath is not finished.
 
Citizenship came to the freed chattel slaves and their descendants in 1868 by the 14th Amendment, making them the first federal citizens, but on July 4,1776, the American chattel slaves were too born into that aberrational government experiment, called the United States of America.