"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." This first paragraph is the most important of this Instrument, for this sets the true nature for it's in tent. That of the "separate yet equal" position of one another on the land. By that of the creator of the Universe, of Nature,, and Man. That all men are Sovereigns to each other as entitled by the Supreme Sovereign of the Universe. Defined by Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Genesis 1:26-28 .