combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our

civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on

causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be

cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of

candid world. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and

be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance

attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time

as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude

and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow

and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that

and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support

amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New

among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any

accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would

abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such

WILLIAM WILLIAMS - CONNECTICUT

WILLIAM WHIPPLE - NEW HAMPSHIRE

WILLIAM PACA - MARYLAND

WILLIAM HOOPER - NORTH CAROLINA

WILLIAM FLOYD - NEW YORK

WILLIAM ELLERY - RHODE ISLAND

Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a

Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended

THOMAS STONE - MARYLAND

THOMAS NELSON JR. - VIRGINIA

THOMAS MCKEAN - DELAWARE

THOMAS LYNCH JR. - SOUTH CAROLINA

THOMAS JEFFERSON - VIRGINIA

THOMAS HEYWARD JR. - SOUTH CAROLINA

THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF THE THIRTEEN UNITED STATES

State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion

STEPHEN HOPKINS - RHODE ISLAND

SAMUEL HUNTINGTON - CONNECTICUT

SAMUEL CHASE - MARYLAND

SAMUEL ADAMS - MASSACHUSETTS

ROGER SHERMAN - CONNECTICUT

ROBERT TREAT PAINE - MASSACHUSETTS

ROBERT MORRIS - PENNSYLVANIA

RICHARD STOCKTON - NEW JERSEY

RICHARD HENRY LEE - VIRGINIA

Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its

Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and

Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts

PHILIP LIVINGSTON - NEW YORK

Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our

Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat

Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is

OLIVER WOLCOTT - CONNECTICUT

Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their

Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For