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To: rockrr
(you weren’t expecting me to type it all out, were you?!)

I was expecting you to give a thesis statement. You know, a summation of what it says in as few words as possible.

To put my finger on it's central core, I point to this sentence.

"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."

If you have a different core sentence that you believe summarizes the soul of the Declaration of independence, please point it out.

1,110 posted on 01/27/2020 3:36:22 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no oither sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp
Oops this goes to you...

What, you mean like,

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Like that?

;'}

1,113 posted on 01/27/2020 4:02:07 PM PST by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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