The Declaration of Independence

By: Thomas Jefferson

Outlets: Minnesota Reformer

Published: July 3, 2026

Words: 1,471

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 5 days ago

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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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