When they said "all men are created equal", they meant

white men. NEVER in history have we seen Asian-

Use of the word "unanimous", as all of Americans, Black people, Latinx people, indigenous folx,
the men were a bit angry they had to ANY religious minority, etc be treated equal. They
Authors chose to omit
pay taxes, but not angry at the fact that declared independence while still being slave masters, so
who "all men" are.
they dressed like indigenous peoples to how are all men equal under their rule?? Just a thought...
Even though it says
protest their tea taxes..... THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE—1776 1
^^ "all", there was only
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 We hold these truths to be self-evident, that
all men are created equal, that they are en- one demographic of
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united dowed by their Creator with certain unalienable men actually signing it,
States of America Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and
WHEN in the Course of human events, it be- the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these which obviously wasn't
rights, Governments are instituted among Men,
Introduction with comes necessary for one people to dissolve the
political bands which have connected them with deriving their just powers from the consent of specified because why
formal tone declaring another, and to assume among the powers of the the governed,—That whenever any Form of Gov-
earth, the separate and equal station to which ernment becomes destructive of these ends, it is would they care about
separation of state. the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, non-white people?
them, a decent respect to the opinions of man- and to institute new Government, laying its
kind requires that they should declare the foundation on such principles and organizing its
causes which impel them to the separation. powers in such form, as to them shall seem most Authors are listing
likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Pru-
what they dislike about
1 The delegates of the United Colonies of New Hampshire; Mas- dence, indeed, will dictate that Governments
sachusetts Bay; Rhode Island and Providence Plantations; Con- long established should not be changed for light their current system
necticut; New York; New Jersey; Pennsylvania; New Castle, and transient causes; and accordingly all experi-
Kent, and Sussex, in Delaware; Maryland; Virginia; North Caro-
lina, and South Carolina, In Congress assembled at Philadelphia,
ence hath shewn, that mankind are more dis- under English rule.
Resolved on the 10th of May, 1776, to recommend to the respec- posed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than
tive assemblies and conventions of the United Colonies, where no to right themselves by abolishing the forms to White people r mad :((
government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs had been which they are accustomed. But when a long
train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invari- Authors clearly listed
established, to adopt such a government as should, in the opin-
ion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the hap-
piness and safety of their constituents in particular, and of ably the same Object evinces a design to reduce
America in general. A preamble to this resolution, agreed to on them under absolute Despotism, it is their right,
hatred. Reasonings for
the 15th of May, stated the intention to be totally to suppress
the exercise of every kind of authority under the British crown.
it is their duty, to throw off such Government, separation are logical,
On the 7th of June, certain resolutions respecting independency and to provide new Guards for their future secu-
were moved and seconded. On the 10th of June it was resolved, rity.—Such has been the patient sufferance of thus is logos.
that a committee should be appointed to prepare a declaration these Colonies; and such is now the necessity
to the following effect: ‘‘That the United Colonies are, and of
right ought to be, free and independent States; that they are ab- which constrains them to alter their former
solved from all allegiance to the British crown; and that all po- Systems of Government. The history of the
litical connection between them and the State of Great Britain present King of Great Britain is a history of re- Beginning of rant as to
is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.’’ On the preceding day it
was determined that the committee for preparing the declara-
peated injuries and usurpations, all having in di- why the authors should
tion should consist of five, and they were chosen accordingly, in rect object the establishment of an absolute
the following order: Mr. Jefferson, Mr. J. Adams, Mr. Franklin, Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let be allowed to further
Mr. Sherman, Mr. R. R. Livingston. On the 11th of June a resolu- Facts be submitted to a candid world.
tion was passed to appoint a committee to prepare and digest
the form of a confederation to be entered into between the colo-
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most colonize half of the
nies, and another committee to prepare a plan of treaties to be wholesome and necessary for the public good.
proposed to foreign powers. On the 12th of June, it was resolved, He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of North American
that a committee of Congress should be appointed by the name immediate and pressing importance, unless sus-
of a board of war and ordnance, to consist of five members. On continent, regardless of
the 25th of June, a declaration of the deputies of Pennsylvania, pended in their operation till his Assent should
met in provincial conference, expressing their willingness to be obtained; and when so suspended, he has ut- the King's approval.
concur in a vote declaring the United Colonies free and inde- terly neglected to attend to them.
pendent States, was laid before Congress and read. On the 28th He has refused to pass other Laws for the ac- Very repetitive short
of June, the committee appointed to prepare a declaration of
independence brought in a draught, which was read, and ordered commodation of large districts of people, unless sentences beginning
to lie on the table. On the 1st of July, a resolution of the conven- those people would relinquish the right of Rep-
tion of Maryland, passed the 28th of June, authorizing the depu- resentation in the Legislature, a right inestima- with "He", referring to
ties of that colony to concur in declaring the United Colonies
free and independent States, was laid before Congress and read.
ble to them and formidable to tyrants only.
On the same day Congress resolved itself into a committee of the He has called together legislative bodies at the King of England.
whole, to take into consideration the resolution respecting inde- places unusual, uncomfortable, and distance
pendency. On the 2d of July, a resolution declaring the colonies
free and independent States, was adopted. A declaration to that
effect was, on the same and the following days, taken into fur- ed on the 4th of July, but, approving of it, they thus signified
ther consideration. Finally, on the 4th of July, the Declaration their approbation.
of Independence was agreed to, engrossed on paper, signed by NOTE.—The proof of this document, as published above, was
John Hancock as president, and directed to be sent to the sev- read by Mr. Ferdinand Jefferson, the Keeper of the Rolls at the
eral assemblies, conventions, and committees, or councils of Department of State, at Washington, who compared it with the
safety, and to the several commanding officers of the continen- fac-simile of the original in his custody. He says: ‘‘In the fac-
tal troops, and to be proclaimed in each of the United States, simile, as in the original, the whole instrument runs on without
and at the head of the Army. It was also ordered to be entered a break, but dashes are mostly inserted. I have, in this copy, fol-
upon the Journals of Congress, and on the 2d of August, a copy lowed the arrangement of paragraphs adopted in the publication
engrossed on parchment was signed by all but one of the fifty- of the Declaration in the newspaper of John Dunlap, and as
six signers whose names are appended to it. That one was Mat- printed by him for the Congress, which printed copy is inserted
thew Thornton, of New Hampshire, who on taking his seat in No- in the original Journal of the old Congress. The same paragraphs
vember asked and obtained the privilege of signing it. Several are also made by the author, in the original draught preserved
who signed it on the 2d of August were absent when it was adopt- in the Department of State.’’

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Consistent formal tone from the depository of their public Records, for with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarce-
the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compli- ly paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and to-
expressing reasons as to ance with his measures. tally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has dissolved Representative Houses re- He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken
why authors are peatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against
declaring independence. invasions on the rights of the people. their Country, to become the executioners of
He has refused for a long time, after such dis- their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves
solutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby by their Hands.
the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihila- He has excited domestic insurrections
tion, have returned to the People at large for amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the
their exercise; the State remaining in the mean inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless In-
Chooses to use short
time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from dian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an
sentences to promptly without, and convulsions within. undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes not this.. "In every
He has endeavoured to prevent the population and conditions.
complain while of these States; for that purpose obstructing the In every stage of these Oppressions We have stage of these
Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing Petitioned for Redress in the most humble
remaining posh-like. to pass others to encourage their migrations terms: Our repeated Petitions have been an- Oppressions" didn't
hither, and raising the conditions of new Appro- swered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose
priations of Lands. character is thus marked by every act which ya'll create slavery
He has obstructed the Administration of Jus- may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of AND racism AND
tice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for estab- a free people.
lishing Judiciary powers. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our white supremacy???
He has made Judges dependent on his Will Brittish brethren. We have warned them from
alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the time to time of attempts by their legislature to
amount and payment of their salaries. extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and We have reminded them of the circumstances of
sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our peo- our emigration and settlement here. We have
ple, and eat out their substance. appealed to their native justice and magnanim-
He has kept among us, in times of peace, ity, and we have conjured them by the ties of
Standing Armies without the Consent of our leg- our common kindred to disavow these usurpa-
islatures. tions, which, would inevitably interrupt our Authors chose to be
He has affected to render the Military inde- connections and correspondence. They too have
pendent of and superior to the Civil power. been deaf to the voice of justice and of con- ableist when they say
He has combined with others to subject us to sanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the
a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and necessity, which denounces our Separation, and
"they have been deaf to
unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, En- the voice of justice".
to their acts of pretended Legislation: emies in War, in Peace Friends.
For quartering large bodies of armed troops WE, THEREFORE, the Representatives of the
among us: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in General Congress, End of tyranny rant.
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of
punishment for any Murders which they should the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, Sentences are much
commit on the Inhabitants of these States: in the Name, and by Authority of the good Peo-
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the ple of these Colonies, solemnly publish and de- longer and include
world: clare, That these United Colonies are, and of
"For imposing Taxes on For imposing Taxes on us without our Con- details of who is
Right ought to be FREE AND INDEPENDENT
sent:
us without our For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits
STATES; that they are Absolved from all Alle- responsible for the
giance to the British Crown, and that all politi-
of Trial by Jury: colonizer's actions.
Consent", so they made For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried cal connection between them and the State of
Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dis-
for pretended offenses: "all political
a whole country solved; and that as Free and Independent States,
For abolishing the free System of English they have full Power to levy War, conclude connection between
because of that, yet still Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce,
therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging and to do all other Acts and Things which Inde- them and the State of
decided to tax their its Boundaries so as to render it at once an ex- pendent States may of right do. And for the sup-
ample and fit instrument for introducing the Great Britain, is and
entire population after same absolute rule into these Colonies: port of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on
the protection of divine Providence, we mutu-
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our ought to be totally
this scrap was sent.... ally pledge to each other our Lives, our For-
most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally tunes and our sacred Honor. dissolved." period the
AS IF their wallets the Forms of our Governments:
JOHN HANCOCK.
For suspending our own Legislatures, and de- girlies were sick of it!
aren't big enough to pay claring themselves invested with power to legis- New Hampshire
late for us in all cases whatsoever. They said "we hate
for themselves. girl- He has abdicated Government here, by declar- JOSIAH BARTLETT, MATTHEW THORNTON.
ing us out of his Protection and waging War WM. WHIPPLE, ya'll broken heart
against us. Massachusetts Bay emoji"
Authors choose to omit He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, SAML. ADAMS, ROBT. TREAT PAINE,
burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our No figurative language
the mass genocides people. JOHN ADAMS, ELBRIDGE GERRY.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of used at all. Formal and
they did against foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of The John Adams? Rhode Island
death, desolation and tyranny, already begun STEP. HOPKINS, WILLIAM ELLERY. consistent tone
indigenous peoples He wasn't in a casket
throughout the think
across the entire when this country was
piece. Sentence
country. formed??
structure was long,
Oh.
short, short, short, too
short, long, then long.
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Connecticut Virginia
ROGER SHERMAN, WM. WILLIAMS, GEORGE WYTHE, THOS. NELSON, jr.,
SAM’EL HUNTINGTON, OLIVER WOLCOTT. RICHARD HENRY LEE, FRANCIS LIGHTFOOT
TH. JEFFERSON, LEE,
New York
BENJA. HARRISON, CARTER BRAXTON.
WM. FLOYD, FRANS. LEWIS, "All men are created equal"... not Thomas Jefferson no.
PHIL. LIVINGSTON, LEWIS MORRIS.
North Carolina
New Jersey WM. HOOPER, JOHN PENN.
RICHD. STOCKTON, JOHN HART, JOSEPH HEWES,
JNO. WITHERSPOON, ABRA. CLARK.
FRAS. HOPKINSON,
South Carolina
Pennsylvania THOS. HEYWARD, THOMAS LYNCH, Junr.,
ROBT. MORRIS, JAS. SMITH, Junr., ARTHUR MIDDLETON.
BENJAMIN RUSH, GEO. TAYLOR, EDWARD RUTLEDGE,
omg ben BENJA. FRANKLIN, JAMES WILSON,
JOHN MORTON, GEO. ROSS. Georgia
GEO. CLYMER,
BUTTON GWINNETT, GEO. WALTON.
Delaware LYMAN HALL,
CAESAR RODNEY, THO. M’KEAN.
GEO. READ, NOTE.—Mr. Ferdinand Jefferson, Keeper of the Rolls in the De-
partment of State, at Washington, says: ‘‘The names of the sign-
ers are spelt above as in the fac-simile of the original, but the
Maryland punctuation of them is not always the same; neither do the
names of the States appear in the fac-simile of the original. The
SAMUEL CHASE, CHARLES CARROLL OF names of the signers of each State are grouped together in the
WM. PACA, Carrollton. fac-simile of the original, except the name of Matthew Thorn-
THOS. STONE, ton, which follows that of Oliver Wolcott.’’

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