That all People are endowed with certain unalienable Rights, Including Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
That Governments are instituted among People, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of the People, it is the Right of the People, it is the Duty of the People, to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government and to provide new Guards for their future security.
That Prudence dictates that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes.
That all experience has shown that People are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
