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2nd - "'When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one ... to dissolve the ... 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 ...' (with certain intentional omissions by this writer)": https://www.curezone.org/blogs/fm.asp?i=2384245
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