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6 PoINT CENTURY EXPANDED
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 govern-
ment becomes destructive 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 experience bath 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 govern-
ment 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 submitted 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 operation 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 those 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 fatiguing them into compliance with his
measures; he has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing, with manly firmness, his
invasions on the rights of the people; he has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause
others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to their
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7 POINT CENTURY EXPANDED
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 ofgovernment becomes destructive of these ends, it is the
right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to institute a new government, layingits founda-
tion 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 ex-
perience bath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than
to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they have been 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 abso-
lute tyranny over these States. To prove this, let facts be submitted 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 sus-
pended in their operation 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
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