. . . Governments are instituted among
Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed,
that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these
Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and
to institute new Government . . . it is their Right, it is their
Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for
their future Security.
—THOMAS JEFFERSON,
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence