Within.-He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization With manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.-He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, toĬause others to be elected whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at largeįor their exercise the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions Purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.-He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing Legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole Right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.-He has called together Has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the Their operation till his Assent should be obtained and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.-He To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.-He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessaryįor the public good.-He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in
Of an absolute Tyranny over these States.
Of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment These Colonies and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. To throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.-Such has been the patient sufferance of Invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing Themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes andĪccordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right Shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,Īnd to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them To secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,-That Which impel them to the separation.-We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they areĮndowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.-That Them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of NatureĪnd of Nature"s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America National Archives, Washington, D.C.In Congress, July 4, 1776
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