Right Of Rebellion

We hold these Truth s 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 in the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute a 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.

Whenever the Ends Of Government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.