Interpretation 1
"By when a long train of abuses and usurpations.......evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right..... to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future society.
The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history repeated injuries....., all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states."
Interpretation 2
"We therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled.....solemly publish and Declare, That these United colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States."
