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Important Telephone Numbers

CARES West Pasco
727-862-9291

CARES Home Health, East Pasco
352-523-1500

Emergency 911

Sheriff’s Dept. Info
847-5878

Elderly Nutrition
834-3340

Public Transportation
834-3322

Child or Elder Abuse
1-800-962-2873

Crisis Intervention or Suicide Prevention
1-800-784-24333

Poison Control Center
1-800-222-1222

Sexual Abuse S.A.V.E. of Pasco County
727-834-3236

Florida Council on Compulsive Gambling
99-admit-it

Alcoholics Anonymous
847-0777

Al-Anon Family Groups
352-697-0497

THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF
THE THIRTEEN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776

Continued from July . . .

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and resurpations, all having in direct object of an establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained, and when so suspended he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together Legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly for opposing with manly firmness, his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused, for a long time, after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise, the state in the meantime remaining exposed to all the dangers of invasion without and convulsions within.. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these states, for that purpose obstructing the Law for Naturalization of foreigners refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands. H has obstructed the administration of justice by refusing to assent to laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.. He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance. He has left among us, in times of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Powers. He has combined with others to subject us to jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution, and unacknowledged by our Laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation.