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LONDON:

SHACKELL AND BAYLIS, JOHNSON'S-COURT, FLEET-STREET.

AND

PRIVATE PAPERS

OF

THOMAS JEFFERSON,

LATE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

NOW FIRST PUBLISHED FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS.

EDITED BY

THOMAS JEFFERSON RANDOLPH.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

HENRY COLBURN AND RICHARD BENTLEY,

NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

1829.

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A Declaration by the Representatives of the UNITED STATES

OF AMERICA.

in General Congress assembled.

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When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for to people to

dissolve the political bands which have connected them with

another, and to

They love hitherto reparate and equal

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the powers of the earth the content station to
which the laws of nature & of nature's god entitle them, a decent respect
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to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare

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which impel them to separation. We hold these truths to be self evident,

the

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any endowed by their creator with qual that all men are they are

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created equal, Honda pronationt; that [pean that equal orcation they derous

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