4/30/2023 0 Comments 1776 declaration of independenceTo throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.-Such has been the patient sufferance of Invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing Themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes andĪccordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right Shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,Īnd to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them To secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,-That Which impel them to the separation.-We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they areĮndowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.-That Them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of NatureĪnd of Nature"s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America National Archives, Washington, D.C.In Congress, July 4, 1776
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