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A Declaration of Independence -Essential Reading Today
How does this document relate to today and the world we live in, the country we live in?
Remember and reflect today on your government, its leaders, and the importance of these ideas, principles, and reasons in your life. How do you think we should honor these notions of liberty and freedom?
In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America,d
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…
