When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for the people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with a president, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Presidents derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, and whenever any president becomes destructive of the people's unalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, it is the right of the people to remove that president and elect a new one, who is more likely to ensure their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that a president duly elected should not be removed for light and transient causes, but when a long train of abuses shows a design to reduce the people to absolute despotism, it is their right and their duty to remove such a president.
The current president has a history of repeated attempts to establish a tyranny over the states. As proof, consider these facts:
He has refused to approve laws necessary for the public good.
He has obstructed laws for the naturalization of foreigners, and blocked other laws that would encourage their immigration.
He has tried to make judges dependent on his will alone.
He has sent swarms of security forces to harass the people, without the consent of local legislators.
He has excited domestic insurrection against these outside forces.
We the people have asked repeatedly for changes, but these requests have been answered only by repeated injury.
Therefore, a president whose character is marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to hold office as the leader of a free people.
The above updates parts of a document published in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776.
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