when, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the legal bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of natures god entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.  we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. that, to secure these rights, corporations are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the employed. that, whenever any form of corporation becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new employment, 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. but, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably temporary profits, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such corporations, and to provide new guards for our future security. such has been the patient sufferance of the people; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of employers. the history of the present ceo of uh is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over the people. to prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
United States