我要出国1776年美国独立宣言(英文版)

2021年1月26日发(作者：葛云彬)
The Declaration of Independence
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF THE THIRTEEN UNITED STATES OF AMERAICA
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
Nature
and
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.

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
they
are
among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these
rights,
governments
is
instituted
among
them,
deriving
their
just
power
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. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established
should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all
experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are
sufferable, than t right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are
accustomed.
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. 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. The history of the present King of Great Britain
is usurpations, all having in direct object tyranny over these States. To prove
this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the
public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing im-
portance,
unless
suspended
in
their
operation
till
his
assent
should
be
obtained;
and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend them.
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.
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.
He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly
firmness his invasion on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolution, to cause others to
be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have
returned to the people at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the
meantime
exposed
to
all
the
dangers
of
invasion
from
without
and
convulsion
within.
He
has
endeavored
to
prevent
the
population
of
these
states;
for
that
purpose
obstructing the laws of naturalizing of foreigners; refusing to pass others to
encourage
their
migration
hither,
and
raising
the
condition
of
new
appropriations
of lands.
He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent of
laws for establishing judiciary powers.
He
has
made
judges
dependent
on
his
will
alone,
for
the
tenure
of
their
office,
and the amount and payment of their salary.
He
has
erected
a
multitude
of
new
officers,
and
sent
hither
swarms
of
officers
to harass our people, and eat out our substances.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent
of our legislatures.
He
has
affected
to
render
the
military
independent
of
and
superior
to
the
civil
power.
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.
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us;
For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murder which
they should commit on the inhabitants of these States.
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world;
For imposing taxes on us without our consent;
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury;
For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses;
For abolishing the free systems of English laws in a neighboring 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 these Colonies;
For
taking
away
our
Charters,
abolishing
our
most
valuable
laws,
and
altering
fundamentally the forms of our governments;