Ͳhose deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed must themselves be subject to the same Laws , —That whenever any Public Servant becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to restrain or to prohibit them, and to institute new precedence, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their Safety and Happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Precedence discouraging Politically Motivated prosecutions, a wise and long established principle, should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience has shown, that Americans are more disposed to suffer foolish Servants, while fools are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Personal and Official Lawlessness, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Lawlessness, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
—Such has been the patient sufferance of our Citizens; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Practice of Political Leniency.
The history of the former president of the United States is a history of repeated offenses and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over any Legal accountability or moral constraints.
To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
Ͳhose deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed must themselves be subject to the same Laws , —That whenever any Public Servant becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to restrain or to prohibit them, and to institute new precedence, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their Safety and Happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Precedence discouraging Politically Motivated prosecutions, a wise and long established principle, should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience has shown, that Americans are more disposed to suffer foolish Servants, while fools are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Personal and Official Lawlessness, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Lawlessness, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
—Such has been the patient sufferance of our Citizens; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Practice of Political Leniency.
The history of the former president of the United States is a history of repeated offenses and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over any Legal accountability or moral constraints.
To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.