When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve political bands, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's 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, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, 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. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are 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 United States; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present Government 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.

The indefinite detention provision of The National Defense Authorization Act, that allows for American citizens to be arrested and locked away without charges or trial for suspicion of terrorist activity, is a clear violation of the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and possibly even the Ninth Amendments of the Bill of Rights.

The warrantless wiretapping and data-mining of American citizens conducted by the National Security Agency constitute a direct violation of the Fourth Amendment, and has a distinct chilling effect upon the First Amendment right of free speech.

The President has used the IRS to directly harass and impede the First Amendment protected rights of free speech, religious liberty and political activity of conservative and libertarian American citizens, in an attempt to silence dissent and opposition. The intrusive questions of the IRS aimed at conservative and libertarian groups could also be construed as violations of a person’s Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure and Fifth Amendment right of due process and self-incrimination.

The President has made known his distaste for the Second Amendment and his agenda to disarm law-abiding American citizens. When Congress failed to pass gun control measures, because the American people told them overwhelmingly not to, the President took Executive actions of his own to infringe upon our right to keep and bear arms. He has done this through VA regulations disarming veterans, EPA regulations attacking lead and ammunition, ATF regulations attacking gun manufacturers and dealers, and regulations aimed at broadening the definition of mental health in order to disqualify more Americans of their Second Amendment rights.

During the October 2013 government shutdown, illegally denied death benefits to the families of dead U.S. soldiers. Prior to the government shutdown, the funding for these death benefits had already been authorized by law.

On July 7, 2012, Obama signed an Executive order by which he can, at any time he chooses, seize total control over the Internet and all other communication media.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A President whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

We, therefore, the American People, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, solemnly publish and declare, That these United States are, and of Right ought to be Free, and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.