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| # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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| #  DEMO: finddialog in [incr Widgets]
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| # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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| package require Iwidgets 4.0
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| 
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| #
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| # Demo script for the Finddialog class
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| #
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| proc find {} {
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|     if {! [winfo exists .findd]} {
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| 	iwidgets::finddialog .findd -textwidget .st
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|     }
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|     
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|     .findd center .st
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|     .findd activate
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| }
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| 
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| iwidgets::scrolledtext .st -visibleitems 50x14 -wrap none
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| pack .st
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| 
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| button .findb -text "Press to Search Text" -command find
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| pack .findb -pady 5
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| 
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| .st insert end "
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|                     The Declaration of Independence
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|                    (Adopted in Congress 4 July 1776)
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| 
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| When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one
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| people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with
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| another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and
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| equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle
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| them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they
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| should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
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| 
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| We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created
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| equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
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| rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of
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| happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted
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| among men, deriving their just powers form the consent of the
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| governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to
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| these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it,
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| and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such
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| principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall
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| seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence,
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| indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be
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| changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience
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| hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are
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| sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which
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| they are accustomed.  But when a long train of abuses and usurpations,
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| pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them
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| under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to
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| throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future
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| security. --Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies;
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| and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their
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| former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great
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| Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having
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| in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these
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| states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
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| 
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| He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary
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| for the public good.
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| 
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| He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing
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| importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should
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| be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend
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| to them.
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| 
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| He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large
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| districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of
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| representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and
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| formidable to tyrants only.
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| 
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| He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual,
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| uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public
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| records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with
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| his measures.
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| 
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| He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with
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| manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
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| 
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| He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause
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| others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of
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| annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise;
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| the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of
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| invasion from without, and convulsions within.
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| 
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| He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that
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| purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners;
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| refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and
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| raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
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| 
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| He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his
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| assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.
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| 
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| He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of
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| their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
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| 
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| He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of
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| officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
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| 
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| He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the
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| consent of our legislature.
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| 
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| He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to
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| civil power.
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| 
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| He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to
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| our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to
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| their acts of pretended legislation:
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| 
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| For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
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| 
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| For protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment for any murders
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| which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states:
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| 
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| For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world:
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| 
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| For imposing taxes on us without our consent:
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| 
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| For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:
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| 
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| For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses:
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| 
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| For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring
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| province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging
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| its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit
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| instrument for introducing the same absolute rule in these colonies:
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| 
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| For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and
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| altering fundamentally the forms of our governments:
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| 
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| For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested
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| with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
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| 
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| He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his
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| protection and waging war against us.
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| 
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| He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and
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| destroyed the lives of our people.
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| 
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| He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to
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| complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun
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| with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the
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| most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized
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| nation.
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| 
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| He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas
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| to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of
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| their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
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| 
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| He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored
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| to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian
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| savages, whose known rule of warfare, is undistinguished destruction
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| of all ages, sexes and conditions.
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| 
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| In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in
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| the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only
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| by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every
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| act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free
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| people.
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| 
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| Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have
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| warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to
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| extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of
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| the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have
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| appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured
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| them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations,
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| which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and
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| correspondence. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which
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| denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of
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| mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.
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| 
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| We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in
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| General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the
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| world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the
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| authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and
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| declare, that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free
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| and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to
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| the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and
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| the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and
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| that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war,
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| conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all
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| other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And
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| for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the
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| protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our
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| lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.
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| 
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| New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
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| 
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| Massachusetts: John Hancock, Samual Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat
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| Paine, Elbridge Gerry
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| 
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| Rhode Island: Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
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| 
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| Connecticut: Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams,
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| Oliver Wolcott
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| 
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| New York: William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis
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| Morris
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| 
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| New Jersey: Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson,
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| John Hart, Abraham Clark
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| 
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| Pennsylvania: Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John
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| Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson,
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| George Ross
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| 
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| Delaware: Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
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| 
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| Maryland: Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of
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| Carrollton
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| 
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| Virginia: George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin
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| Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
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| 
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| North Carolina: William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
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| 
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| South Carolina: Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch,
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| Jr., Arthur Middleton
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| 
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| Georgia: Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
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| "
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