The Consensus Declaration of the People of the United States of America,

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to renew the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal and interdependent stations to which the nature of being entitles them, a decent respect to the opinions of all people requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the renewal.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all people are equal, that they have certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, that these unalienable rights can be exercised only when people live in a state of security, that solid, safe surroundings, peace and health are requirements of a state of security, that solidity, safety, peace and health are dependent upon and realized to a degree related to the Interdependence of all people and all people and the surroundings, that governments are instituted among people, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends or fails to protect these ends, it is the Right and Responsibility of the people to alter or to remake it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their Security and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and governments that secure Rights and Independence should be only changed, not abolished, in order that Rights and Independence should be the basis on which to form Responsibilities and Interdependence. Experience shows that people are more disposed to suffer and to allow and to inflict suffering, while being is sufferable, than to right themselves by changing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when the government fails to forward Responsibility and Interdependence it is the Right and Responsibility of people to remake government to limit abuses and usurpations and to provide new guards for their future security. Such is now the necessity which constrains us to alter our systems of government and then to renew our commitment to them. The history of the United States of America is the exercise of Rights and Independence, establishing democracy which now requires the exercise also of Responsibilities and Interdependence to fully realize its promise and potential and to ensure its survival. To prove the limitations of Independence without Interdependence, let facts be submitted to a candid world.