If the Declaration of Independence carries no legal weight, then the original 13 Colonies are still under the Crown.
Try to think before you speak, and you won't be a LOLiberal stuck in LOLiberaLand.
Oh...so you want to tell us that we didn't have to actually fight a war against Great Britain to gain our independence....the weight of the legality of the Declaration did that for us......idiot.
If we fought a war with Great Britain, and no Declaration of Independence was written (of any sort), then we would still be part of Great Britain, thus the war would have had no purpose, whether we won or lost.
The Declaration of Independence is also preserved in the Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution. All rights were conferred from the King to the each and every individual American after the Revolution was won. Americans then delegated some of those rights to the States, and eventually others to the Federal Government. However, as the Ninth Amendment reads, they still retain all other rights that are summarized in the Declaration of Independence.
American courts have recognized this (Popular Sovereignty), so what's the issue?
Chief Justice, John Jay,
Chisholm v. Georgia:
at the Revolution, the sovereignty devolved on the people, and they are truly the sovereigns of the country, but they are sovereigns without subjects, and have none to govern but themselves
And that act of devolved Sovereignty is legally embodied by the DoI.
Without the DoI, Chisholm v. Georgia is invalidated, as is the entire US Constitution, since the States would have no authority (not be Sovereign) to create the Constitution, as the King of England would still retain all sovereignty.
Btw, what color is the sky in LOLiberaLand?