Show why vl ll 11 alj hawe we air alv celebrate u n B aa t r alln he rth A eau when in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which h have connected connected them with another and to I 1 assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of 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 evl evi dent that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are lite life liberty and the 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 vh enever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends it is the right of the people to alter a or r to abolish it and to institute new government laying its foundation on art such principles and organizing gan izing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect the their r safety and happiness prudence indeed will dictate that governments long established should not be changed tor for light and transient causes and accordingly all exper experience i ence hath chewn I 1 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 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 xing 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 I 1 world lie 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 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 tight 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 sale ole purpose of I 1 fatiguing them into compliance with I 1 his measures he has dissolved representative houses repeatedly for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people he has refuted 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 meantime exposed to all the dangers danger s of invasion from without and convulsions connul within he hat has endeavored to prevent the population of these states for that purpose se obstructing the laws for 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 I 1 of justice by refusing his assent to laws law for establishing judiciary powers lie he has made judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices and the amount and payment of their salaries laries ta he has erected a multitude ot of new offices and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and cat out their substance I 1 he has kept among us in times of peace standing armies without the consent ot of our legislature he has affected to render the mili tary independent of and ad superior to the civil power I 1 I 1 he I 1 e has co combined mb d w with behns to subject act us to a ian bosn to pur ipar ip ar constitution ard and ar d unacknowledged ed cj by our laws giving his assent asen i to their acts of 0 pretended leg i for quartering large bodies of armed among us for protecting tra by a mock trial from punishment for any murders which they should commit co amit on the inhabitants of these states for cutting off our trade with all a 1 l parts of the world for imposing taxes on us without our consent for depriving ving us in in many cases ot of the benefits of trial by jury for transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended of fences for abolishing the free system of english laws in a neighboring province establishing therein an arbitrary government and enlarging its boundaries bo un kcf so as to render it at once an aa example and fit instrument f for or introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies for taking away out 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 declaring by us out of his protection and waging war against us heimas he i 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 armes of foreign mercenaries to complete works of death des desolation desolate on and tyranny already agun with c run r un stac of cruelty cruelly perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages and totally unworthy the headon 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 execution ers of their friends and brethren or to tall 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 Oppress ions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms our repeated petitions hive have been answered 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 attentions 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 ve have reminded them of the circumstances cum stances 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 have been deal deaf to the voice of justice end and of con consanguine itai we must therefore acquiesce in the necessity wh ch 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 in general congress assembled appealing to the supreme judee of the world for the rectitude of our intentions do in the name and by 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 I 1 to the british crown and that all political connection between them and the state of great britain is and ou ought to be itally totally dissolved and that as free and independent states they hive full power to levy war conclude peace contract alliances establish commerce and to do all other acts and things which wh ch independent states ma may mav v of right do and for the support ct ca tars th s declara tion con with a firm 1 rel cl ane an ar e on an the he protection of divine we mutually pledge to c cich ci 0 bir oar lives our fortunes tunics zad end our car s e ej honor elonar |