It is necessary for the people of a single state in the United States of America to dissolve the political bonds that have connected them together, and to assume the powers of governing that state. That a separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them and a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation." This is no longer "ONE NATION UNDER GOD."
"...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 abolish it, and institute new Government..