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1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | Author: Thomas Jefferson |
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1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | 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. |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | 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 shown, 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. 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. |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | He has 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 mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws of Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers. |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | He has made judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our People, and eat out their substance. |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power. |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | 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 Acts of pretended legislation: |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | For imposing taxes on us without our Consent: |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with Power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy of the Head of a civilized nation. |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | 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. |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only 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. |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | Nor have We been wanting in attention 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 have reminded them of the circumstances 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 too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of 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 Free 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 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 Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor. |
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1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | The United States Bill of Rights. |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | The Ten Original Amendments to the Constitution of the United States Passed by Congress September 25, 1789 Ratified December 15, 1791 |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | I |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | II |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | III |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law. |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | IV |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | V |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation. |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | VI |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense. |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | VII |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law. |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | VIII |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | Excessive bail shall not be required nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | IX |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | X |
1 | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. |
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