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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of United States Declaration of Independence, by 
+Thomas Jefferson
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+Title: United States Declaration of Independence
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+Author: Thomas Jefferson
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+Posting Date: April 21, 2015 [EBook #300]
+Release Date: July, 1995
+First Posted: July 22, 1995
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK U.S. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE ***
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+
+  The Declaration of Independence of
+  The 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,
+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 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 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 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 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 the People at large for their exercise;
+the State remaining in the mean time 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 Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing
+to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the
+conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
+
+He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent
+to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
+
+He has made judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their
+offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
+
+He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of
+Officers to harass our People, and eat out their substance.
+
+He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the
+Consent of our legislatures.
+
+He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to
+the Civil Power.
+
+He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to
+our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to
+their Acts of pretended legislation:
+
+For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
+
+For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders
+which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
+
+For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
+
+For imposing taxes on us without our Consent:
+
+For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
+
+For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
+
+For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring
+Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging
+its 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, and
+altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
+
+For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested
+with Power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
+
+He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection
+and waging War against us.
+
+He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and
+destroyed the lives of our people.
+
+He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to
+compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with
+circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most
+barbarous ages, and totally unworthy of the Head of a civilized nation.
+
+He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas
+to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their
+friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
+
+He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured
+to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian
+Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction
+of all ages, sexes and conditions.
+
+In every stage 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 attention to our British brethren. We have
+warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to
+extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of
+the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here.  We have
+appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured
+them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations,
+which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence.
+They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity.
+We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our
+Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in
+War, in Peace Friends.
+
+We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, 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 are Absolved from all Allegiance to
+the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and
+the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and
+that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War,
+conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to 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, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
+
+
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