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当任何形式的政府对这些目标具破坏作用时，人民便有权力改变或废除它，以建立一个新的政府;其赖以奠基的原则，其组织权力的方式，务使人民认为唯有这样才最可能获得他们的安全和幸福。为了慎重起见，成立多年的政府，是不应当由于轻微和短暂的原因而予以变更的。过去的一切经验也都说明，任何苦难，只要是尚能忍受，人类都宁愿容忍，而无意为了本身的权益便废除他们久已习惯了的政府。但是，当追逐同一目标的一连串滥用职权和强取豪夺发生，证明政府企图把人民置于专制统治之下时，那么人民就有权利，也有义务推翻这个政府，并为他们未来的安全建立新的保障--

Such

has

been

the

patient

sufferance

of

these

Colonies;

and

such

is

now

the

necessity

which

constrains

them

to

alter

their

former

Systems

of

Government.

The

history

of

the

present

King

of

Great

Britain

is

a

history

of

repeated

injuries

and

usurpations,

all

having

in

direct

object

the

establishment

of

an

absolute

Tyranny

over

these

States.

To

prove

this,

let

Facts

be

submitted

to

a

candid

world.

这就是这些殖民地过去逆来顺受的情况，也是它们不得不改变政府制度的原因。大不列颠国在位国王的历史，是接连不断的伤天害理和强取豪夺的历史，这些暴行的唯一目标，就是想在这些州建立专制的暴政。为了证明所言属实，现把下列事实向公正的世界宣布--

He

has

refused

his

Assent

to

Laws,

the

most

wholesome

and

necessary

for

the

public

good.

他拒绝批准对公众利益最有益、最必要的法律。

He

has

forbidden

his

Governors

to

pass

Laws

of

immediate

and

pressing

importance,

unless

suspended

in

their

operation

till

his

Assent

should

be

obtained;

and

when

so

suspended,

he

has

utterly

neglected

to

attend

to

them.

他禁止他的总督们批准迫切而极为必要的法律，要不就把这些法律搁置起来暂不生效，等待他的同意;而一旦这些法律被搁置起来，他对它们就完全置之不理。

He

has

refused

to

pass

other

Laws

for

the

accommodation

of

large

districts

of

people,

unless

those

people

would

relinquish

the

right

of

Representation

in

the

Legislature,

a

right

inestimable

to

them

and

formidable

to

tyrants

only.

他拒绝批准便利广大地区人民的其它法律，除非那些人民情愿放弃自己在立法机关中的代表权;但这种权利对他们有无法估量的价值，而且只有暴君才畏惧这种权利。

He

has

called

together

legislative

bodies

at

places

unusual,

uncomfortable,

and

distant

from

the

depository

of

their

public

Records,

for

the

sole

purpose

of

fatiguing

them

into

compliance

with

his

measures.

他把各州立法团体召集到异乎寻常的、极为不便

的、远离它们档案库的地方去开会，唯一的目的是使他们疲于奔命，不得不顺从他的意旨。

He

has

dissolved

Representative

Houses

repeatedly,

for

opposing

with

manly

firmness

his

invasions

on

the

rights

of

the

people.

他一再解散各州的议会，因为它们以无畏的坚毅态度反对他侵犯人民的权利。

He

has

refused

for

a

long

time,

after

such

dissolutions,

to

cause

others

to

be

elected;

whereby

the

Legislative

powers,

incapable

of

Annihilation,

have

returned

to

the

People

at

large

for

their

exercise;

the

State

remaining

in

the

mean

time

exposed

to

all

the

dangers

of

invasion

from

without,

and

convulsions

within.

他在解散各州议会之后，又长期拒绝另选新议会;但立法权是无法取消的，因此这项权力仍由一般人民来行使。其实各州仍然处于危险的境地，既有外来侵略之患，又有发生内乱之忧。

He

has

endeavoured

to

prevent

the

population

of

these

States;

for

that

purpose

obstructing

the

Laws

of

Naturalization

of

Foreigners;

refusing

to

pass

others

to

encourage

their

migrations

hither,

and

raising

the

conditions

of

new

Appropriations

of

Lands

.