Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-07-03
DOCUMENT THAT
MADE A NATION
Text of the Immortal DeCIara-
ton Of Independence With
Which All Americans Should
Be Familiar.
VwY HEN, in the course of human
w events, 1t becomes necessary for
one neonla In dissolve the politi-

w events, 1t becomes necessary for
one people to dissolve the politi-
cal 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 natures God entitle
them, decent respect to the opinions
{ 1aalind requires that they should
declare the causes which impel them
to the separation.
We hold these truths to be selfevi-
dent--that all men are created equal;
that they are endowed by their Crea-
tor with certain inalienable rights;
among these are life, liberty and
7uit of happiness. That to Sc
rights, governments are in
among men, deriving their
wer5 from the consent of the
governed; that whenever any form of
government becomes destructive of
those ends, it is the right of the peo-
D alter or to abolish 1t, and to
N titute new government, laying its
foundation on such principles, and or
eaniziag its power in such form as to
them shall seem most likely to effect
their safety and happiness. Provi-
dence, indeed, will dictate that gov
ernments long established should not
be changed for light and transient
causes; and, accordingly, all expert
ence hath shown, that mankind are
more disposed to suffer, while evils
are sufferable, than to right them
selves 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 I'M
right, 1t 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 govern
ment. The history Of the present king
of Great Britain is history Of repeat
ed injuries and usurpations, all hav-
I'M, in direct object, tle establish
ment Of an absolute tyranny over
these states. To prove this, let facts
be submitted to a candid world:
He has refused his assent 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
tained and, when so suspended, he
has utterly neglected to attend to
them.
He has refused to pass other laws
for the accommodation of large dis
tricts of people, unless these people
would relinquish the right Of repre-
sentation in the legislature; right
inestimable to them, and formidable
to tyranny only.
He has called together legislative
bodies at places unusual, uncom-
Portable and distant from the depos-
tory of their public records, for the
sole purpose of fatiguing them into
compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved representative
houses repeatedly for opposing with
manly firmness his invasions on the
rights of the people.
He has kept among us, In time Of
peace, standing armies, without the
consent Of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the mill
tary Independent Of, and superior to
the civil power.
He has combined, with others, to
subject us to jurisdiction foreign to
our constitution, and acknowledged
by our laws, giving his assent to their
acts of pretended legislation.
For quartering large bodies of armed
troops among US;
For protecting them by mock trial,
from punishment, for any murders
which they should commit on the in
habitants of these states;
For cutting off our trade with all
parts of the world;
For imposing taxes on US without