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         THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

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, That whenever 
any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it 
is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to 
institute new Government, laying its foundation on such 
principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to 
them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and 
Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments 
long established should not be changed for light and 
transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, 
that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are 
sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms 
to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses 
and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces 
a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their 
right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to 
provide new Guards for their future security. -Such has been 
the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now 
the necessity which constrains them to alter their former 
Systems of Government.