Proudly handmade in the USA. A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States Of America, in General Congress Assembled. When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with one another and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate but equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature''s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.