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"Bob LeChevalier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "dpr" <&^%@&^%.com> wrote: > >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. > > > >We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, > >that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that > >among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure > >these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just > >powers 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 transient causes; and accordingly 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 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. > > "Poor little Bob still cannot refute the DOI.
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