Declaration of Independence

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in Congress. July for 17 76 Unanimous declaration off the 13 United States of America when in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another 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 off mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We're all 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 foundations on such principles, organising its powers in such form as to them should see most likely to affect their safety and happiness. Prudence indeed will dictate that governments long established, should not be challenged for light and transient causes. And accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils insufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurp ations pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them and the under absolute despotism, it is their right Nate is their duty to show off such government and 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. Tow alter the former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurp ations, or all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states to produce let facts be submitted to Accounted World. He has refused his centre to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public. Good yes, forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance. Let's suspended in the air operation till his ascent should be obtained on Gwen so suspended he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass all the laws for the accommodation of large district people unless there's people would relinquish the right representation in the legislator, a right inestimable to them and formidable to time wounds. Only escort to get a legislative bodies that places unusual, uncomfortable and distant from the depository of public records for the sole purpose of taking them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly for posing with manly firmness, his invasions on the rights off the people he has fuelled for a long time after That's disillusions to cause others to be elected, whereby the legislative powers incapable of annihilation have returned to the people at large for their exercise percent remaining in the meantime, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without and convulsions within. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these states for that purpose, obstructing the laws of naturalisation of foreigners, refusing to parts, others to encourage their migration, Hitler and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands. He has obstructed the administration of justice by refusing his descent laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made judge is dependent on his will alone for the tenure off their officers Onda the amount pavement off their salaries. He has directed the multitude of the offices and sent to the swarms of officers to harass Our people need out their substance. He is kept in my wrist in times of peace standing armies without the consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the military independent off and superior to the civil power. He has compounded others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our own constitution. Andan acknowledged by our laws giving his ascent to their acts off pretended legislation for quartering large bodies of armed troops among us for protecting them by mock trial, for the punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants off these states for cutting off outrage with all parts of the world for imposing taxes on us without our consent for depriving us in many cases, off the benefits of trial by jury for transporting as beyonc is to be tried for pretended defences for abolishing the free system of English laws in the neighbouring province, establishing there in an arbitrary government and enlarging his boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies for taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws on altering fundamentally the palms off our governments for suspending our legislatures and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever, Hey has abdicated government here by declaring this out of his protection and waiting war against us. He has plundered Azis ravaged our coasts, burned out homes and destroyed the lives ofthe people. He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death Desolation t already begun with circumstances of cruelty in perfectly, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages and totally unworthy off the head of a civilised nation. He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the houses to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of difference and brethren or to follow themselves by their hands. He's excited domestic insurrections among us and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers. The merciless Indian savages who's no rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages. sexes in conditions and every state of these oppressions. We have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms. Our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have we been wanting in the attention of our British Britain. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislative to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have remanded them up the circumstances of our immigration and settlement. We have appealed to the late of justice and magnanimity on DH. We have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred. To disavow these user patients which would inevitably interrupt our connexions and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of con Sanguinetti. We must therefore acquiesced in the necessity which denounces our separation and holds them as we hold the rest of mankind. An amazing war and peace friend. We therefore, the representatives of the United States of America written in general, Congress assembled, appealing to the supreme judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions do in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies solemnly publish and declare that these united colonies are and of right ought to be free and independent states that they're absolved from any allegiance to the British crown and that all political connexion between them on the states of Great Britain is and ought to be totally dissolved. And that as free and independent states, I have full power to levy wall, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce and do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives of origins and our sacred alma.