Of all the ideas that became the United States, there's a line here that's at the heart of all the others. "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, "pursuing invariably the same object, "evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, "it is their right, it is their duty "to throw off such government and provide new guards for their future security."

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Standing in the Rotunda of the National Archive, Ben quotes from the Declaration as they stand before it.

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