unclebobmartin on Nostr: When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve ...
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 of 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 unalientable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty,
and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instututed 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
abolishit, and to instutue new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and
organizing its power is 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 shewn, 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
userpations, pursuing inevitably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under
absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw of such Government, and to
provide new guards for their future security.
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 of 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 unalientable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty,
and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instututed 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
abolishit, and to instutue new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and
organizing its power is 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 shewn, 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
userpations, pursuing inevitably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under
absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw of such Government, and to
provide new guards for their future security.