When it becomes necessary for one group of people to break away from a government it is also necessary that they give reason to their separation.
Everyone is equal and has the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, so when the government they are under gets in the way of those rights, they can alter or abolish it and make a new government. Everyone suffers, but if the government is constantly making it's people suffer then the people have the right to change it. Next it lists everything the monarchy has done wrong, i.e. forbidding governors to pass important laws or imposing taxes without consent. The oppression's have been petitioned (humbly) and those petitions have only been answered by injury. Then it states that the United Colonies are absolved from allegiance to the British Crown and all political connections ought to be dissolved, and as independent states are allowed to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and other acts and things that independent states have the right to do.
Why are the words that are capitalized, capitalized?
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