 | Mason Lowance - Literary Collections - 2000 - 390 pages
...in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness . . . But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, begun at a...and 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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 376 pages
...themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses & usurpations begun at a distinguished period and pursuing...constrains them to expunge their former systems of government. We therefore the representatives of the United States of America in General Congress assembled... | |
 | H. Richard Uviller, William G. Merkel - History - 2002 - 358 pages
...government was first erected.23 Ninety-seven years later, in the Declaration, Jefferson wrote: [ b]ut when a long train of abuses and usurpations, begun at a...and pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce the [people] under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw... | |
 | Thomas Paine - History - 2004 - 260 pages
...themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses & usurpations begun at a distinguished period and pursuing...now the necessity which constrains them to expunge [alter] their former systems of government. The history of the present king of Great Britain is a history... | |
 | Mary Mostert - Political Science - 2004 - 230 pages
...sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, begun at a...and pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to subject them to arbitrary power, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government... | |
 | Peter Coviello - 243 pages
...sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, begun at a...and 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... | |
 | David Armitage - History - 2007 - 332 pages
...guards for their future security, such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; & such is now the necessity which constrains them to expunge their former systems of government, the history of his present majesty, is a history of unremitting injuries and usurpations,... | |
 | Matthew S. Holland - Religion - 2007 - 340 pages
...guards for their future security, such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; & such is now the necessity which constrains them to expunge their former systems of government, the history of his present majesty, is a history of unremitting injuries and usurpations,... | |
 | Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1858 - 610 pages
...sufferable, than to right themselves, by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, begun at a...and 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... | |
 | American literature - 1875 - 980 pages
...sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, begun at a...and 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... | |
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... 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, begun at a distinguished period and pursuing invariably... 
