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Declaration of Independence

The Declaration of Independence declares the United States independence from Great Britain by stating that all men are created equal and have unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Governments are formed to protect these rights, and when a government abuses or destroys these rights, it is the people's right to alter or abolish it and form a new government. The document claims the King of Great Britain established tyranny over the colonies through repeated injuries and usurpations of their rights, compelling the colonies to declare independence and become free and independent states.

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Declaration of Independence

The Declaration of Independence declares the United States independence from Great Britain by stating that all men are created equal and have unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Governments are formed to protect these rights, and when a government abuses or destroys these rights, it is the people's right to alter or abolish it and form a new government. The document claims the King of Great Britain established tyranny over the colonies through repeated injuries and usurpations of their rights, compelling the colonies to declare independence and become free and independent states.

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Declaration of Independence

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 other 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 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 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 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 affect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed will dictate
the 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, whiles evils are
sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But
when a long train of abused and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a
design to reduce then under absolute despotism, it is their tight, 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 system 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.

Matteus Karwowski 8th Grade 2-22-17

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