tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1952866519335588313.post7730111802056090105..comments2023-10-10T05:41:09.249-05:00Comments on LandShark 5150: Jefferson's Draft of The Declaration of IndependenceLandShark 5150http://www.blogger.com/profile/11625229822235020824noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1952866519335588313.post-69098130066122402962010-07-23T17:17:02.504-05:002010-07-23T17:17:02.504-05:00The line which Ben Franklin added his adit to is s...The line which Ben Franklin added his adit to is something to take note to and also a personal favorite of mine -- "deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; thatwhenever any form of government shall becomes destructive of theseends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, & toinstitute new government, laying it's foundation on such principles,& organizing it's powers in such form, as to them shall seem mostlikely to effect their safety & happiness. prudence indeed willdictate that governments long established should not be changed forlight & transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shownthat mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable,than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they areaccustomed. but when a long train of abuses & usurpations pursuinginvariably the same object, evinces a design to s reduce them under absolute Despotism to arbitrary power, it is their right, it is their duty to throw offsuch government, & to provide new guards for their future securitysuch has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; & such is nowthe necessity"LandShark 5150https://www.blogger.com/profile/11625229822235020824noreply@blogger.com