The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America

ISBN-10: 1523242523
ISBN-13: 9781523242528
Series: The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America
Pages: 64
Language: English
Published: 2016-01-04
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Author: Thomas Jefferson

Description

Excerpt from opening lines: "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."