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one file, with one header for the entire file. This is to keep
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the overhead down, and in response to requests from Gopher site
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keeper to eliminate as much of the headers as possible.
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However, for legal and financial reasons, we must request these
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headers be left at the beginning of each file that is posted in
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donation from people like you.
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If you see our books posted ANYWHERE without these headers, you
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are requested to send them a note requesting they re-attach the
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header, otherwise they have no legal protection and we have the
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long enough to post 10,000 books, plays, musical pieces, etc.
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FOR PUBLIC DOMAIN ETEXTS*Ver.04.29.93*END*
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December, 1971 [Etext #1]
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1970's were produced in ALL CAPS, no lower case. The
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computers we used then didn't have lower case at all.
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This is a retranscription of one of the first Project
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and now officially re-released on December 31, 1993--
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The United States Declaration of Independence was the first Etext
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in an emailed instruction set which required a tape or diskpack be
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hand mounted for retrieval. The diskpack was the size of a large
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cake in a cake carrier, cost $1500, and contained 5 megabytes, of
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which this file took 1-2%. Two tape backups were kept plus one on
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paper tape. The 10,000 files we hope to have online by the end of
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2001 should take about 1-2% of a comparably priced drive in 2001.
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This file was never copyrighted, Sharewared, etc., and is thus for
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all to use and copy in any manner they choose. Please feel free to
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make your own edition using this as a base.
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In my research for creating this transcription of our first Etext,
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I have come across enough discrepancies [even within that official
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documentation provided by the United States] to conclude that even
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"facsimiles" of the Declaration of Indendence will NOT going to be
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all the same as the original, nor of other "facsimiles." There is
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a plethora of variations in capitalization, punctuation, and, even
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where names appear on the documents [which names I have left out].
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The resulting document has several misspellings removed from those
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parchment "facsimiles" I used back in 1971, and which I should not
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be able to easily find at this time, including "Brittain."
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THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for
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one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected
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them with another, and to assume, among the Powers of the earth,
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the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and
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of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions
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of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which
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impel them to the separation.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
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that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
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that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
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That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,
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deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
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That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,
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it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute
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new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing
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its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect
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their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments
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long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;
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and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed
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to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing
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the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and
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usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce
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them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw
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off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
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--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now
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the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.
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The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated
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injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment
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of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts
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be submitted to a candid world.
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He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary
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for the public good.
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He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate
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and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation
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till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended,
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he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
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He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of
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large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish
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