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1.1 root 1: #print
2: Usually, in addition to the author, you want
3: to specify his address,
4: which is given after a command ".AI" (Author's institution).
5: This should follow immediately after the author's name.
6: In the usual file, "decl", put in Jefferson's
7: address as
8:
9: The Continental Congress
10: Philadelphia, Pa. 19104
11:
12: Then run it off and type "ready".
13: #create Ref
14: .TL
15: Declaration of Independence
16: .AU
17: Thomas Jefferson
18: .AI
19: The Continental Congress
20: Philadelphia, Pa. 19104
21: .PP
22: When in the course of human events, it becomes
23: necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have
24: connected them with another, and to assume among the
25: powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which
26: the laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent
27: respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should
28: declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
29: .PP
30: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men
31: are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator
32: with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty,
33: and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights,
34: governments are instituted among men, deriving their just
35: powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever
36: any form of government becomes destructive of these ends,
37: it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and
38: to institute new government, laying its foundation on such
39: principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them
40: shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
41: #once nroff -ms Ref >X1 &
42: #create decl
43: .TL
44: Declaration of Independence
45: .AU
46: Thomas Jefferson
47: .PP
48: When in the course of human events, it becomes
49: necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have
50: connected them with another, and to assume among the
51: powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which
52: the laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent
53: respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should
54: declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
55: .PP
56: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men
57: are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator
58: with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty,
59: and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights,
60: governments are instituted among men, deriving their just
61: powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever
62: any form of government becomes destructive of these ends,
63: it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and
64: to institute new government, laying its foundation on such
65: principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them
66: shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
67: #copyout
68: #user
69: #uncopyout
70: tail -66 .ocopy >X2
71: #cmp X1 X2
72: #log
73: #next
74: 7.1a 10
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