Excerpt #4: "(T]hat whenever any form of government becomes destructive [in protecting rights and responding to the people), it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government.." Excerpt #5: "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."
Excerpt #4: "(T]hat whenever any form of government becomes destructive [in protecting rights and responding to the people), it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government.." Excerpt #5: "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."