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Columnist Bill Newman: Our Declaration of Independence

The unanimous Declaration of people deeply aggrieved in the United States of America today.   When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to denounce and rise up against a ruler usurping his power and hijacking their democracy, a decent respect to the opinions of humankind requires that the resisters should declare the causes which impel their dissent.  We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all people are created equal, that they are endowed… with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted…, deriving their just powers from the consent of the […]

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