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    NPR‏Verified account @NPR Jul 4

    🧵 245 years ago today, leaders representing 13 British colonies signed a document to declare independence. It says "that all men are created equal" — but women, enslaved people, Indigenous people and many others were not held as equal at the time.https://n.pr/2SJ3Y5v 

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        The document also includes a racist slur against Indigenous Americans. Author David Treuer, who is Ojibwe, says there is a lot of diversity of opinion and thought among Native Americans — a community of more than 5 million people — about the document’s words.pic.twitter.com/K64UXhMKDA

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      3. NPR‏Verified account @NPR Jul 4

        In this thread of the Declaration of Independence, you can see a document with flaws and deeply ingrained hypocrisies. It also laid the foundation for this country’s collective aspirations — the hopes for what America could be.pic.twitter.com/znLSGKWLaj

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      4. NPR‏Verified account @NPR Jul 4

        (Grammar, punctuation and spelling as provided by the National Archives.)

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      5. NPR‏Verified account @NPR Jul 4

        In Congress, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

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      6. NPR‏Verified account @NPR Jul 4

        When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another,

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      7. NPR‏Verified account @NPR Jul 4

        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.

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      8. NPR‏Verified account @NPR Jul 4

        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.

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      9. NPR‏Verified account @NPR Jul 4

        --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,

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      10. NPR‏Verified account @NPR Jul 4

        --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,

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      11. NPR‏Verified account @NPR Jul 4

        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.

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      12. NPR‏Verified account @NPR Jul 4

        Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;

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      13. NPR‏Verified account @NPR Jul 4

        and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

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      14. NPR‏Verified account @NPR Jul 4

        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.

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      15. NPR‏Verified account @NPR Jul 4

        --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.

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      16. NPR‏Verified account @NPR Jul 4

        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. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

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        He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

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      18. NPR‏Verified account @NPR Jul 4

        He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

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      19. NPR‏Verified account @NPR Jul 4

        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.

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      20. NPR‏Verified account @NPR Jul 4

        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.

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      21. NPR‏Verified account @NPR Jul 4

        He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

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      22. NPR‏Verified account @NPR Jul 4

        He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected;

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      23. NPR‏Verified account @NPR Jul 4

        whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

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      24. NPR‏Verified account @NPR Jul 4

        He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

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      25. NPR‏Verified account @NPR Jul 4

        He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

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      26. NPR‏Verified account @NPR Jul 4

        He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

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      27. NPR‏Verified account @NPR Jul 4

        He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

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      28. NPR‏Verified account @NPR Jul 4

        He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

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      29. NPR‏Verified account @NPR Jul 4

        He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

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      30. NPR‏Verified account @NPR Jul 4

        He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

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      31. NPR‏Verified account @NPR Jul 4

        For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

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