POL S 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Human Events, Thomas Lynch Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee
24 Sep 2015
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The unanimous declaration of the thirteen united states of america. 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. 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. 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 a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
