accustomed. But 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. Such has been
the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now
the necessity which constrains them to alter their former
Systems of Government. The history of the present King of
Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and
usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of
an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let
Facts be submitted to a candid world.
A. The government of Great Britain was established to protect the
rights of the people living in the Colonies.
B. Governments should give citizens land on which to live.
C. People living in the Colonies suffer because of the British
government.