What is the Difference between rough draft final draft declaration of independence?
When,in thecourseCourseof human events, it becomes necessary foraonepeople toadvance from that subordination indissolve the political bandswhichtheyhavehitherto remainedconnected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, theseparate andequaland independentstation to which thelawsLawsofnatureNatureand ofnature's godNature's Godentitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to thechangeseparation.We hold these truths to be[sacred and undeniable] selfevidentself-evident, that all men are created equaland independent;,thatfromthey are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,thatequal creation they derive in rights inherent and inalienables,amongwhich are the preservation of life, and libertythese are Life, Liberty,and the pursuit ofhappiness; thatHappiness. Thatto secure theseends, governmentsrights, Governmentsare instituted amongmenMen, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that. Thatwhenever anyformFormofgovernment shall becomeGovernment becomesdestructive of these ends, it is therightRightof thepeoplePeopleto alter or to abolish it, and to institute newgovernmentGovernment, laying its foundation on such principles and organizingit'sitspowers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect theirsafetySafetyandhappiness. prudenceHappiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate thatgovernmentsGovernmentslong 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.butButwhen a long train of abuses and usurpations,begun at a distinguished period, andpursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to[subject]reduce themto arbitrary powerunder absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off suchgovernmentGovernment, and to provide newguardsGuardsfor their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of thesecoloniesColonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them toexpungealtertheir formersystemsSystemsofgovernment. theGovernment. Thehistory ofhisthepresentmajestyKing of Great Britain [George III]is a history ofunremittingrepeatedinjuries and usurpations,among which no fact stands single or solitary to contradict the uniform tenor of the rest,allof which havehavingin direct object the establishment of an absolutetyrannyT]yrannyover thesestates. toStates. Toprove this, letfactsFactsbe submitted to a candid world, for the truth of which we pledge a faith yet unsullied by falsehood..He has refused hisassentAssenttolawsLaws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good:.He has forbidden hisgovernorsGovernorsto passlawsLawsof immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till hisassentAssentshould be obtained;,and when so suspended, he hasutterlyneglectedutterlyto attend to them.He has refused to pass otherlawsLawsfor the accommodation of large districts of people,unless those people would relinquish the right ofrepresentation [Representationin thelegislature],Legislature,a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only:.He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.He has dissolvedrepresentative housesRepresentative Housesrepeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.[he has dissolved]heHehas refused for a longspace oftime,after such dissolutions,to cause others to be elected,;whereby thelegislativeLegislativepowers, incapable ofannihilationAnnihilation, have returned to thepeoplePeopleat large for their exercise,;thestateStateremaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within:.heHehasendeavoredendeavouredto prevent the population of thesestatesStates; for that purpose obstructing thelawsLawsfornaturalizationNaturalizationofforeignersForeigners; refusing to pass others to encourage theirmigrationmigrationshither, and raising the conditions of newappropriationsAppropriationsoflands:Lands.heHehassufferedobstructedtheadministrationAdministrationofjustice totally to cease in some of these colonies,Justice, byrefusing hisassentAssenttolawsLawsfor establishingjudiciary powers:Judiciary Powers.heHehas madeour judgesJudgesdependent on hiswillWillalone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amountand paymentof their salaries.heHehas erected a multitude ofnew offices by a self-assumed powerNew Offices, and sent hither swarms ofofficersOfficerstoharrassharassour people, and eat out their substance.heHehas kept among us, in times of peace,standing armies and ships of war:Standing Armies, without the consent of our legislatures.heHehas affected to render themilitary,Militaryindependent of and superior tocivilthe Civilpower:.heHehas combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to ourconstitutions,constitutionand unacknowledged by our laws; giving hisassentAssentto theirActs ofpretendedacts of legislation, forLegislation:Forquartering large bodies of armed troopsamongamongus;for:Forprotecting them,byamocktrial,Trialfrom punishment for anymurders [Murderswhich]they should commit on theinhabitantsInhabitantsof thesestates; forStates:Forcutting off ourtradeTradewith all parts of the world;for:ForimposingtaxesTaxeson us without ourconsent;forConsent:Fordepriving usin many casesof the benefits oftrialTrialbyjury;forJury:Fortransporting us beyondseasSeasto be tried for pretendedoffenses;foroffences:For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:Fortaking away ourcharters, andCharters, abolishing our most valuable Laws andaltering fundamentally theformsFormsof ourgovernments;forGovernments:Forsuspending our ownlegislaturesLegislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever;.heHehas abdicatedgovernmentGovernmenthere, withdrawing his governors, andbydeclaring us out of hisalegianceProtectionandprotection;waging War against us.heHehas plundered our seas, ravaged ourcoastsCoasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people:.heHeis at this time transporting largearmiesArmiesof foreignmercenariesMercenariestocompleatcompletethe works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidyscarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totallyunworthy theheadHeadof a civilized nation:.heHehasendeavoredconstrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavouredto bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers,the merciless IndiansavagesSavages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditionsof existence:.he has incited treasonable insurrections of our fellow citizens with the allurements of forfeiture and confiscation of our property:he has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incure miserable death in their transportation hither. this piratical warfare, the opprobium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christianking of Great Britain. [determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold,] he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce [determining to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold]: and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he had deprived them, by murdering the people upon whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another.inInevery stage of theseoppressionsweOppressions WehavepetitionedPetitionedforredressRedressin the most humble terms: our. OurrepeatedpetitionsPetitionshave been answered only by repeated injury.a princeA Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define atyrantTyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of apeople who mean to befree. future ages will scarce believe that the hardiness of one man, adventured within the short compass of twelve years only, on so many acts of tyranny without a mask, over a people fostered and fixed in principles of liberty. people.Nor haveweWebeen wanting inattentionattentionsto our British brethren.weWehave warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction overthese our states. weus. Wehave reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here, no one of which could warrant so strange a pretension: that these were effected at the expence of our own blood and treasure, unassisted by the wealth or the strength of Great Britain: that in constituing indeed our several forms of government, we had adopted one common king, thereby laying a foundation for perpetual league and amity with them: but that submission to their parliament was no part of our constitution, nor ever in idea, if history may be credited: and we. We haveappealed to their native justice and magnanimity,as well as toand we have conjured them bythe ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, whichwere likely towould inevitablyinterrupt ourconnections andcorrespondenceand connections. they. Theytoo have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity, and when occasions have been given them, by the regular course of their laws, of removing from their councils the disturbers of our harmony, they have by their free election re-established them in power. at this very time too they are permitting their chief magistrate to send over not only soldiers of our common blood, but Scotch and foreign mercenaries to invade and deluge us in blood. these facts have given the last stab to agonizing affection, and manly spirit bids us to renounce forever these unfeeling brethren..We mustendeavor to forget our former love for them, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind,enemies in war, in peace friends. we might have been a free and a great people together; but a communication of grandeur and of freedom it seems is below their dignity. be it so, since they will have it: the road to [glory and] happiness [and to glory] is open to us too; we will climb it apart from them [in a separate state] and acquiesce in the necessity which denounces [pronounces][ our [everlasting Adieu!] eternal separation!Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.We, therefore,therepresentativesRepresentativesof the United States of America, in General Congress,assembledAssembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions,do, in thenameName, and by the authority of the goodpeoplePeopleof thesestates, rejectColonies, solemnly publishandrenounce the allegiancedeclare. That these United Colonies are,andsubjectionof Right oughttothe kinds of Great Britainbe FreeandIndependent States; that they are Absolved fromallothers whe may herafter claim by, through, or under them; we utterly dissolveAllegiance to the British Crown,andbreak offthatall political connectionwhich may have heretofore subsistedbetweenusthemand thepeople or parliamentStateof Great Britain;isandfinally we do assert and declare these coloniesoughtto befree and independent states,totally dissolved;and that asfreeFreeandindependent statesIndependent States,theyshall herafterhave[full] powerPowerto levywarWar, concludepeacePeace, contractalliancesAlliances, establishcommerceCommerce, and to do all otheractsActsandthingsThingswhichindependent statesIndependent Statesmay of right do. And for the support of thisdeclarationDeclaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence,we mutually pledge to each other ourlivesLives, ourfortunesFortunes,and our sacredhonorHonor.
