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The Declaration of Independence

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4,

1776 THE UNANIMOUS

DECLARATION OF THE

THIRTEEN UNITED

STATES OF AMERAICA

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to 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 Nature and Nature’s God entitle them, a decent

respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which them to

the separation.

在人类事务进展的进程中，当一个民族必需解除同另一个民族的联系，并依照自然法那么和上帝的旨

意，以独立平等的身份立于世界各国之林时，出于对人类舆论的尊重，必需把差遣他们独立的缘故予以宣

布。

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed

by their Creator with certain rights, that they are among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of

happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among them, deriving their

just power 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 causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that

mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than t right

themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long

train of abuses and , pursuing invariably the same object a design to reduce them

under absolute , 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 usurpations, all having in direct object over these States. To prove

this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.