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The Declaration of Independence
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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.…
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- AuthorThomas Jefferson
- SourceProject Gutenberg #1
- Length1,636 words · 7 min of reading
- Chapters2
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-09-06
Contents
2 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01Transcribers’ Notes
- 02IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776
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