The Declaration of Independence
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 just 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 to
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 effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments 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. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the 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.
Declaration of Independence
by [email protected] on Aug 18, 2007 08:30:39
Filing for divorce.
The
legal document recognized on
July 4, 1776 in Philadelphia by the Continental Congress and signed by many of our founding fathers, announcing a seccesion of the
13 Colonies from Great Britain. It is the event by which we celebrate Independence Day.
Declaration of Independence
by It's Poop Again on Aug 18, 2011 00:25:30
Example:
Adam: Wow, look at
Joey's face. I've never seen so many mushroom
stamps on someone's face.
Matt: Ya, each
mushroom stamp is actually called a John Hancock and since there are so many, that's a Declaration of Independence.
Declaration of Independence (USA)
by SGS165 on Feb 18, 2022 14:28:27
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 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 separation