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.
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The declaration came first.
The Declaration of Independence, in 1776; then the Constitution, becoming effective in 1789
The First Continental Congress had nothing to do with the Declaration of Independence.
John Hancock was the first on to sign the Declaration of Independence. His signature is also the largest.
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