1) The document is the Declaration of Independence which announces the separation and independence of the 13 American colonies from Great Britain.
2) It lists the grievances against King George III of Great Britain, including refusing to pass laws, imposing taxes without consent, and waging war against the colonies.
3) It declares the colonies free and independent states absolved from allegiance to the British crown, having full power as independent states.
1) The document is the Declaration of Independence which announces the separation and independence of the 13 American colonies from Great Britain.
2) It lists the grievances against King George III of Great Britain, including refusing to pass laws, imposing taxes without consent, and waging war against the colonies.
3) It declares the colonies free and independent states absolved from allegiance to the British crown, having full power as independent states.
1) The document is the Declaration of Independence which announces the separation and independence of the 13 American colonies from Great Britain.
2) It lists the grievances against King George III of Great Britain, including refusing to pass laws, imposing taxes without consent, and waging war against the colonies.
3) It declares the colonies free and independent states absolved from allegiance to the British crown, having full power as independent states.
1) The document is the Declaration of Independence which announces the separation and independence of the 13 American colonies from Great Britain.
2) It lists the grievances against King George III of Great Britain, including refusing to pass laws, imposing taxes without consent, and waging war against the colonies.
3) It declares the colonies free and independent states absolved from allegiance to the British crown, having full power as independent states.
Thirteen $nited States of %#erica hen, in the course of human eents, it !ecomes necessary for one people to dissole the political !onds "hich hae connected them "ith another, and to assume among the po"ers of the earth, the separate and e#ual station to "hich the la"s of nature and of nature$s %od entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of man&ind re#uires that they should declare the causes "hich impel them to the separation' ( (e hold these truths to !e self)eident, that all men are created e#ual, that they are endo"ed !y their Creator "ith certain unaliena!le rights, that among these are life, li!erty and the pursuit of happiness' *hat to secure these rights, goernments are instituted among men, deriing their +ust po"ers from the consent of the goerned' *hat "heneer any form of goernment !ecomes destructie to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to a!olish it, and to institute ne" goernment, laying its foundation on such principles and organi,ing its po"ers in such form, as to them shall seem most li&ely to effect their safety and happiness' -rudence, indeed, "ill dictate that goernments long esta!lished should not !e changed for light and transient causes. and accordingly all e/perience hath sho"n that man&ind are more disposed to suffer, "hile eils are suffera!le, than to right themseles !y a!olishing the forms to "hich they are accustomed' 0ut "hen a long train of a!uses and usurpations, pursuing inaria!ly the same o!+ect einces a design to reduce them under a!solute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to thro" off such goernment, and to proide ne" guards for their future security' 1 2uch has !een the patient sufferance of these colonies. and such is no" the necessity "hich constrains them to alter their former systems of goernment' *he history of the present 3ing of %reat 0ritain is a history of repeated in+uries and usurpations, all haing in direct Declaration of Independence 4 o!+ect the esta!lishment of an a!solute tyranny oer these states' *o proe this, let facts !e su!mitted to a candid "orld' 5e has refused his assent to la"s, the most "holesome and necessary for the pu!lic good' 5e has for!idden his goernors to pass la"s of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should !e o!tained. and "hen so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them' 5e has refused to pass other la"s for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people "ould relin#uish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestima!le to them and formida!le to tyrants only' 5e has called together legislatie !odies at places unusual, uncomforta!le, and distant from the depository of their pu!lic records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance "ith his measures' 5e has dissoled representatie houses repeatedly, for opposing "ith manly firmness his inasions on the rights of the people' 5e has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to !e elected. "here!y the legislatie po"ers, incapa!le of annihilation, hae returned to the people at large for their e/ercise. the state remaining in the meantime e/posed to all the dangers of inasion from "ithout, and conulsions "ithin' 5e has endeaored to preent the population of these states. for that purpose o!structing the la"s for naturali,ation of foreigners. refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of ne" appropriations of lands' 5e has o!structed the administration of +ustice, !y refusing his assent to la"s for esta!lishing +udiciary po"ers' 5e has made +udges dependent on his "ill alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries' 5e has erected a multitude of ne" offices, and sent hither s"arms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their su!stance' Declaration of Independence 6 5e has &ept among us, in times of peace, standing armies "ithout the consent of our legislature' 5e has affected to render the military independent of and superior to ciil po"er' 5e has com!ined "ith others to su!+ect us to a +urisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unac&no"ledged !y our la"s. giing his assent to their acts of pretended legislation7 8or #uartering large !odies of armed troops among us7 8or protecting them, !y moc& trial, from punishment for any murders "hich they should commit on the inha!itants of these states7 8or cutting off our trade "ith all parts of the "orld7 8or imposing ta/es on us "ithout our consent7 8or depriing us in many cases, of the !enefits of trial !y +ury7 8or transporting us !eyond seas to !e tried for pretended offenses7 8or a!olishing the free system of 9nglish la"s in a neigh!oring proince, esta!lishing therein an ar!itrary goernment, and enlarging its !oundaries so as to render it at once an e/ample and fit instrument for introducing the same a!solute rule in these colonies7 8or ta&ing a"ay our charters, a!olishing our most alua!le la"s, and altering fundamentally the forms of our goernments7 8or suspending our o"n legislatures, and declaring themseles inested "ith po"er to legislate for us in all cases "hatsoeer' 5e has a!dicated goernment here, !y declaring us out of his protection and "aging "ar against us' 5e has plundered our seas, raaged our coasts, !urned our to"ns, and destroyed the lies of our people' 5e is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the "or&s of death, desolation and tyranny, already !egun "ith circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most !ar!arous ages, and totaly un"orth the head of a ciili,ed nation' 5e has constrained our fello" citi,ens ta&en captie on the Declaration of Independence 4 high seas to !ear arms against their country, to !ecome the e/ecutioners of their friends and !rethren, or to fall themseles !y their hands' 5e has e/cited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeaored to !ring on the inha!itants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian saages, "hose &no"n rule of "arfare, is undistinguished destruction of all ages, se/es and conditions' In eery stage of these oppressions "e hae petitioned for redress in the most hum!le terms7 our repeated petitions hae !een ans"ered only !y repeated in+ury' A prince, "hose character is thus mar&ed !y eery act "hich may define a tyrant, is unfit to !e the ruler of a free people' :or hae "e !een "anting in attention to our 0ritish !rethren' (e hae "arned them from time to time of attempts !y their legislature to e/tend an un"arranta!le +urisdiction oer us' (e hae reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here' (e hae appealed to their natie +ustice and magnanimity, and "e hae con+ured them !y the ties of our common &indred to disao" these usurpations, "hich, "ould ineita!ly interrupt our connections and correspondence' (e must, therefore, ac#uiesce in the necessity, "hich denounces our separation, and hold them, as "e hold the rest of man&ind, enemies in "ar, in peace friends' (e, therefore, the representaties of the ;nited 2tates of America, in %eneral Congress, assem!led, appealing to the 2upreme Judge of the "orld for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and !y the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly pu!lish and declare, that these united colonies are, and of right ought to !e free and independent states. that they are a!soled from all allegiance to the 0ritish Cro"n, and that all political connection !et"een them and the state of %reat 0ritain, is and ought to !e totally dissoled. and that as free and independent states, they hae full po"er to leey "ar, conclude peace, contract alliances, esta!lish commerce, and to do all other acts and things "hich independent states may of right do' And for the support of this declaration, "ith a firm reliance on the Declaration of Independence < protection of Diine -roidence, "e mutually pledge to each other our lies, our fortunes and our sacred honor'
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