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The following paragraph uses strike-through text to show deletions <B>between draft and final versions</B> of the <I>Declaration of Independence</I>:
When<s>,</s>
in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for <s>a</s>
one people to <s>advance from that subordination
in which they have hitherto remained, </s>
dissolve the political bands which have connected
them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the <s>equal
and independent</s> separate and equal
station to which the <s>laws of nature
and of nature's god</s> 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 <s>change</s>
separation.
The following paragraph uses strike-through text to show deletions between draft and final versions of the Declaration of Independence:
When, in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for a
one people to advance from that subordination in which they have hitherto
remained, dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another,
and to assume among the powers of the earth, the equal and independent
separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's god
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 change separation.