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| ...it becomes necessary for one people to |
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| which have connected them with another, and to assume among the |
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| the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of |
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| We hold these truths to be |
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| that they are endowed by their Creator with certain |
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| that among these are life, liberty and the |
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| Why are governments 'instituted among men'? |
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| deriving their just powers from the |
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| That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to |
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| Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for |
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| We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the |
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| And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of |
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| we mutually pledge to each other 1 |
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| we mutually pledge to each other 2 |
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| we mutually pledge to each other 3 |
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