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“…whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends [to
secure the Rights of the People to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of
Happiness], it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and
to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles,
and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most
likely to effect their Safety and Happiness... when a long Train of
Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a
Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is
their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for
their future Security.”
That is from the Declaration of Independence
