4. We therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America. in General

4. "We therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America. in General Congress... do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare.
That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are
Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them
and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved.
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