“…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,
… But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, … 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.” Declaration of Independence, July 4,
1776.