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 Posted: Tue Oct 7th, 2008 12:37 am
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Mana: 
 Underlying the entire document is the inalienable right to try. Actually succeeding is not an inalienable right.

I'll also note that it cautions that "...whenever a government becomes obstructive of these ends..."

Those who wrote and debated and signed that document knew very well that they were rebelling ... not seceding ... rebelling. In knowing that, they still pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor.