When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political 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 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.
I have always found those words inspiring. They guy who wrote them, Thomas Jefferson, made sure that the government institutions that he and the other founders created to replace the English law would not require the folks who felt oppressed to resort to violence.
If you look at the US Constitution as an act of social programming you may, like me, discover a deep respect for the programmers.
