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+The unanimous declaration of all rational individuals:
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+As the founders of the Forerunning republic said, "When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political 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
+Reason entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."
+
+Existence exists and the act of grasping this implies two corollary axioms: that something exists which one perceives and that one exists possessing consciousness.
+These two -- existence and consciousness -- are axioms humankind cannot escape; these two are the irreducible primaries implied in any action one undertakes, in any
+part of one's knowledge. Whatever one knows, the axioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it:
+Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.
+
+We hold these axioms to be self-evident and self-reaffirming: that man is a rational creature possessing a rational consciousness which is his only tool of
+survival and that to hamper a rational creature's mind is to hamper its ability to live and thrive - thus man's right to life is his right to the unhampered use
+of his rational faculty in the pursuit of his life and thriving. That to secure this right to life means to secure it against the predations of other rational
+creatures who wish to survive as rulers who extort others rather than as rational men who think and produce. That governments are instituted among men to enforce
+this necessary security against predatory men. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is implied within the right of
+rational creatures to their own lives, to alter or to abolish such government, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and
+organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to enforce this right to life as rational creatures to the end that they may pursue their
+happiness.
+
+We lay these charges against {hostile government/political status quo/ruling entity}, that it has set itself up to be an enemy of the right of rational creatures to pursue their lives by reason, subjecting
+said rational creatures to a life lower than the rational -- to a life less than human. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world:
+
+{Show cause by enumeration of facts}
+
+In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.
+A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
+
+We, therefore, the Representatives of the sovereign right of rational creatures to life qua rational being, embodied in the form of {name your political entity}
+in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the final jurisdiction of reason for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of our right to life,
+solemnly publish and declare, That {name your political entity} is, and by right ought to be, Free and Independent; that they it is Absolved from all Allegiance
+to {hostile entity}, and that all political connection between them and the {hostile entity}, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that being Free and
+Independent, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent
+States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the final jurisdiction of reason, we mutually stand together in this cause,
+staking our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.