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The Deklaration of Independenke of the Thirteen kolonies

In KONGRESS, July 4, 1776

The unanimous Deklaration of the thirteen united States of Amerika,

When in the kourse of human events, it bekomes nekessary for one people to dissolve the politikal bands whikh have konnekted them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to whikh the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a dekent respekt to the opinions of mankind requires that they should deklare the kauses whikh impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are kreated equal, that they are endowed by their kreator with kertain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to sekure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the konsent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government bekomes destruktive 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 sukh prinkiples and organizing its powers in sukh form, as to them shall seem most likely to effekt their Safety and Happiness. Prudenke, indeed, will diktate that Governments long established should not be khanged for light and transient kauses; and akkordingly all experienke hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to whikh they are akkustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Objekt evinkes a design to reduke them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off sukh Government, and to provide new Guards for their future sekurity. —Sukh has been the patient sufferanke of these kolonies; and sukh is now the nekessity whikh konstrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain [George III] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direkt objekt the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Fakts be submitted to a kandid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and nekessary for the publik good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importanke, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglekted to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the akkommodation of large distrikts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has kalled together legislative bodies at plakes unusual, unkomfortable, and distant from the depository of their publik Rekords, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into komplianke with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after sukh dissolutions, to kause others to be elekted; whereby the Legislative powers, inkapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exerkise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and konvulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstrukting the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to enkourage their migrations hither, and raising the konditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstrukted the Administration of Justike, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judikiary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offikes, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erekted a multitude of New Offikes, and sent hither swarms of Offikers to harass our people, and eat out their substanke.

He has kept among us, in times of peake, Standing Armies without the konsent of our legislatures.

He has affekted to render the Military independent of and superior to the kivil power.

He has kombined with others to subjekt us to a jurisdiktion foreign to our konstitution and unakknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Akts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protekting them, by a mokk Trial, from punishment for any Murders whikh they should kommit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For kutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our konsent:

For depriving us, in many kases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offenkes:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Provinke, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at onke an example and fit instrument for introduking the same absolute rule into these kolonies:

For taking away our kharters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and deklaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all kases whatsoever.

He has abdikated Government here, by deklaring us out of his Protektion and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our koasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Merkenaries to kompleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with kirkumstankes of kruelty and perfidy skarkely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a kivilized nation.

He has konstrained our fellow kitizens taken kaptive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their kountry, to bekome the exekutioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has exkited domestik insurrektions amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merkiless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruktion of all ages, sexes and konditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prinke whose kharakter is thus marked by every akt whikh may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiktion over us. We have reminded them of the kirkumstankes of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justike and magnanimity, and we have konjured them by the ties of our kommon kindred to disavow these usurpations, whikh, would inevitably interrupt our konnektions and korrespondenke. They too have been deaf to the voike of justike and of konsanguinity. We must, therefore, akquieske in the nekessity, whikh denounkes our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peake Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of Amerika, in General kongress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rektitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by the Authority of the good People of these kolonies, solemnly publish and deklare, That these United kolonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegianke to the British krown, and that all politikal konnektion between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, konklude Peake, kontrakt Alliankes, establish kommerke, and to do all other Akts and Things whikh Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Deklaration, with a firm relianke on the protektion of divine Providenke, we mutually pledge to eakh other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sakred Honor.