US Declaration of Dependence
The preamble to the declaration of (in)dependence, updated to present-day:
The Unanimous Declaration
of the Thirteen Fifty United States of America*
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve endear themselves to the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station collective equality to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God Federal Government entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation relinquishment of liberty for the socialist egalitarian ideal.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal as endowed by the Government, that they are endowed by their Creator with entitled to by the government, certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, prescription drug coverage, retirement income, housing, college loans, free government-run schools, welfare, income redistribution through taxation, unemployment compensation, health care, “access to the internet” (courtesy of John Edwards), and other forced charity. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed within. That whenever any form of government group of individuals becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and government to institute new bigger 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 welfarism and dependency. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed grow 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 pay higher taxes to the government, and to trust the government to provide new guards for their future security. –Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies fifty states; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former idealize and trust systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain Federal Government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations efficiency, wisdom, and moral accuracy, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny benevolent control over these states.
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*This document is NOT signed by any of the following:Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton, Samuel Adams, John Adams, John Hancock, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry, Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery, Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott, William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris, Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark, Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross, George Read, Caesar Rodney, Thomas McKean, Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton, William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn, Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton, Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
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