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When, in the course of human events, it becomes
necessary for one portion of the family of

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man to assume among the people of the Earth
a position different from that which they

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have hitherto occupied, but one to which the
laws of nature and of nature's God entitle

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them, a decent respect to the opinions of
mankind requires that they should declare

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the causes that impel them to such a course.

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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that
all men and women are created equal; that

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they are endowed by their creator with certain
inalienable rights; that among these are life,

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liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that
to secure these rights governments are instituted,

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deriving their just powers from the consent
of the governed.

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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive
of these ends, it is the right of those who

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suffer from it to refuse allegiance to it,
and to insist upon the institution of a new

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government, laying its foundation on such
principles, and organizing its powers in such

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form as to them shall seem most likely to
effect their safety and happiness.

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It is their duty to throw off such government,
and to provide new guards for their future

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security. Such has been the patient sufferance
of the women under this government, and such

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is now the necessity which constrains them
to demand the equal station to which they

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are entitled.

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The history of mankind is a history of repeated
injuries and usurpations on the part of man

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toward woman, having in direct object the
establishment of an absolute tyranny over her.

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He has never permitted her to exercise her
inalienable right to the elective franchise.

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He has compelled her to submit to laws, in
the formation of which she had no voice.

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He has withheld from her rights, which are
given to the most ignorant and degraded men.

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Having deprived her of this first right of
a citizen, the elective franchise, thereby

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leaving her without representation in the
halls of legislation, he has oppressed her

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on all sides.

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Now, in view of this entire disenfranchisement
of one-half the people of this country,

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in view of the unjust laws above mentioned, and because

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women do feel themselves aggrieved, oppressed
and fraudulently deprived of their most sacred

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rights, we insist that they have immediate
admission to all the rights and privileges

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which belong to them as citizens of these
United States.

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Firmly relying upon the final triumph of the
right and the true, we do this day affix our

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signatures to this declaration.