The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-06-29
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
The Immortal Document Formulated in Philadelphia which Set
tied English Rule in America.

When i'll the course OF human
events, it becomes necessary for one
people to dissolve the political bands
which have connected them with ano-
ther and to assume among the powers
of the earth, the separate and equal
station to which the Laws of Nature
and of Natures God entitle them, a
decent respect to the opinions of man
kind requires that they should de-
clare the causes which impel them
to the separation. We hold these truths
to be self-evident, that all men are
created equal. that they are endowed
their Creator with certain unalien-
able Rights, that among these are
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Hap
piness. That to secure these rights,
Governments are instituted among
Men, deriving their just powers
from theconsent 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 i'll 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 ac
cordingly all experience hath shewn,
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
usurpatlons, pursuing invariably the
same Object evinces a design to re-
duce them under abusolute Despot-
sm, it is their right, it is their
duty, to throw off such Gov
ernment, 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 CIR at Britain is q
history of repeated injuries and usur-
pations, all having in direct object
ranny over these States. To prove
did world. He has refused his AS
sent to Laws, the most wholesome
and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to
pass Laws of immediate and pressing
Importance, unless suspended in their
operation till his Assent should be OBJ
tanned, and when so suspended, he
has utterly neglected to attend to
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Laws for the accommodation of large
districts of people, unless those people
would relinquish the right of Repre-
sentation in the Legislature, a right
inestimable to them and formidable
to tyrants only. He has called to-
gether legislative bodies at places
unusual, uncomfortable, and dis
tant from he depository of
their public Records, for the
sole purpose of fatiguing them
into compliance with his meas
ures. He has dissolved Representa-
tive Houses repeatedly, for opposing
with manly firmness his invasions on
the rights of the people. He has re-
fused for a long time, after such dis
solutions, 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 remain
ing in the mean time exposed to all
the dangers of invasion from with
out, and convulsions within. He has
endeavored TO prevent the population
of these States for that purpose OBJ
structing the Laws for Naturalization
of Foreigners; refusing to pass Others
to encourage their migrations hither,
and raising the conditions of new APP
preparations of Lands. He has OBJ
strueted the Administration of Justice
by refusing his Assent to Laws for es-
tablishing Judiciary powers. He has
made Judges dependent on his Will
alone, for the tenure of their offices,
and the amount and payment of their
sala les. He has erected a multitude
of New Offices, and sent hither
swans of Officess to harrass our peo-
pie, and eat out their substance. He
has kept among us, in times OF peace,
Standing Armies without the Consent
of our legislatures. He has affected