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.
WORD LISTS"The Declaration of Independence" (1776)March 19, 2014
By Vocabulary.com (NY)
 The Declaration of Independence was adopted on July 4, 1776 by the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia. Drafted by Thomas Jefferson, with a preamble by John Adams and editing by Benjamin Franklin and other members of Congress, it outlines the offenses of King George III to justify the vote for independence that had taken place two days earlier. With the colonies already one year into a war, the Declaration closed the door on reconciliation with Great Britain, paved the way for the creation of the United States of America, and continues to serve as an inspiration throughout the world.
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dissolve
unalienable
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.
abolish
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.
transient
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and
transient causes
usurpation
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.
sufferance
Such has been the patient
sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.
tyranny
The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute
Tyranny over these States.
assent
He has refused his
Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
relinquish
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would
relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
compliance
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into
compliance with his measures.
endeavor
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States
obstruct
He has
obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
harass
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to
harass our People, and eat out their substance.
render
He has affected to
render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
jurisdiction
He has combined with others to subject us to a
jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws
impose
For
imposing taxes on us without our Consent
deprive
For
depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury
arbitrary
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an
Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies
abdicate
He has
abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
ravage
He has plundered our seas,
ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
desolation
He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death,
desolation and tyranny...
perfidy
already begun with circumstances of Cruelty &
perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy of the Head of a civilized nation.
redress
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.
unwarrantable
We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an
unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.
magnanimity
We have appealed to their native justice and
magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence.
consanguinity
They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of
consanguinity.
acquiesce
We must, therefore,
acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
rectitude
We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the
rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by the Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States
absolve
they are
Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved
providence
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.
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Take my hand, show me the way, we are the children who can't be saved.
As for the words, they can be increasingly difficult than the typical ten word lists, mostly the dialect of the Declaration of Independence is different than ours today.