When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political romantic 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 separationunionization.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all women and men men are created unequal, that though they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty Love and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments Families are instituted among Women and Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government Family becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new GovernmentFamily, 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 Families 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....
One has to love Thomas Jefferson after watching the musical “1776” and visiting Monte Cello and UVA. Don’t think he would mind my alternation of his “declaration of independence”.
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