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6 POINT CENTURY OLDSTYLE
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 inalienable 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 abolish it and
to institute a new government, laying its foundations 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. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a
history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having, in direct object, the establishment of an
absolute tyranny over these States. To prove this, let facts be given to a candid world: He has
refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good; he has forbidden
his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their opera-
tion till his assent should be obtained; and, when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend
to them; he has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless
these people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature; a right inestimable to
them, and formidable to tyrants only; he has called together legislative bodies at places unusual,
uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatigu-
ing them into compliance with his measures; he has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for oppos-
ing, with manly firmness, his invasions on the rights of the people; he has refused, for a long time after
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8 PoINT CENTURY OLDSTYLE
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 inalienable 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 destruc-
tive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to
institute a 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 experi-
ence 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 ofgovernment.
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