Declaration Flashcards
2 Statement of truths
We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain on alienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
3 statement of secure
That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
4 statement of destructive
That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the rights of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, lying it’s foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect there safety and happiness
5 Statement of prudence
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, then to write themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
6 Statement of train
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.
7 statement of patient
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
8 statement of history
The history of the present king of Great Britain (George lll) is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object to establishment of an absolute Tairney over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
1 Statement of coarse
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.
9 statement of petitioned
In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: are repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.
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Statement of tyrant
A prince whose character is that’s marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people
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Statement of wanting
Nor have we been wanting and attentions to our British brother in. 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 immigration and settlement here.
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Statement of appealed
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 to have been deaf to the voice of justice and Of consanguinity.
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Statement of Acquiesce
We must, therefore, acquiesce and the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends
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Statement of we, the representatives
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 connections between them and the state of Great Britain, is an art to be totally dissolved; and that as free and Independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliance says, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may Of right do
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Statement of support
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.
