Show DOCUMENT THAT I 1 v a 1 A D E A hext of the immortal declaration of independence with which all americans should be familiar HEN in the course of human W WHEN events it becomes necessary for ono one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers ot of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and natures 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 evi dent that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life liberty and the pur pursuit ot 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 formoe form of government becomes destructive of these ends it Is the right of the peo p on to abolish it and to institute a new government laying its found atlin on such principles and organizing gan izing its power in such form as aa to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness providence indeed will dictate that governments ern ments 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 lerable suf 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 la Is their right it Is their duty to throw off such euch government and to provide new guards for their future security such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies colon log 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 sta states es to prove this lot facts be submitted to a candid world lie he has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good lie ile has forbidden his governors to pays pars laws ot of immediate and preshing pres king lug importance unless suspended in their operation till hla his assent should be obtained and when so suspended he has utterly neglected to attend to them ile iio has refused to pass pasa other laws the accommodation of large districts of people unless these thes e people would relinquish the right of representation sen tation in the legislature a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyranny only he has called together legislative bod bodies lei at places unusual uncomfortable for table and distant from the depository ot of their public records for the bole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with hla his measures lie ho has hag dissolved representative houses repe repeatedly for opposing with manly firmness wa invasions on the rights of the people ile he has kept among us in time of peace standing armies without the consent of our legislatures ile he has affected to render the mill tary independent of and superior to the civil power ile 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 nets acts of pretended legislation for quartering large bodies of armed troops amongas among us X for or protecting them by y a mock trial rom from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states for cutting off our trade with all parts of too tha world vor for imposing taxes on ui ua without ofir consent cone ent for depriving us in many cases ot of the benefits of trial byi jury for transporting us beyond the seas to bo be tried for pretended offenses tenses ol for abolishing the free system ol of english glish laws in a neighboring province establishing therein an arbitrary government and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once onca an example and fit instrument for lutro intro dicing the samo same absolute rule into these colonies he has abdicated government here by declaring us out of his protection and waging war aga ineat us he has plundered our oui seas ravaged our coasts burned our towns and do strayed the lives of our people ile he Is at this time transporting large armies ot of foreign mercenaries merce to complete the works of death deso lation and tyranny already begun with circumstances of cruelty and per ildy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation ile he has constrained our tellow fellow citi zens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country to become the executioners execution ers of thelt theft friends and brethren or to fall them selves by their hands bands ile ho has excited domestic eions alons among us and has endeavored 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 tage pt ot these we have redress in thi most mont humble terms our repeated pett tiona have been answered only by re heated injury A prince whose character to Is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant Is unfit to be the ruler of a tree free people nor have we been wanting in attention to our british brethren wa W have warned them from time to time of attempts male made by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurls jurisdiction dic over us we have reminded them of the circumstances c r our emigration and settlement here we have appealed to their native ustice justice j and magnanimity and we have conjured them by the ties ot of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations which would inevitably interrupt our connection and correspondence thoy they too have been deaf deat to the voice voica of justice and consanguinity we must therefore acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our separation and hold them as we hold the rest of akl fr f r I 1 officer reading declaration of independence pen dence before the army mankind enemies in war in peace friends we therefore there toro the representatives of the united states of america in general congress assembled appealing to the supreme judge of the world for the rectitude of 0 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 arpe 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 Dri 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 ail alliances establish commerce and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do and tor for the support of bf f tion with a firm rel reliance lancet aca the pro lection of 0 divine providence we nau mu dually pledge to wh each other our lives our fortunes and our sacred honor |