Which statement best summarizes the following portion of the Declaration of

Independence?

When in the Course of human events, it becomes

necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands

which have connected them with another, and to assume

among the powers of the earth, the separate and 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.