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Interpreting the Declaration of Indepencence?

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Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Translate this into words we would use today..

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  1. I made several false starts on this.  I can find no better words.  None of the words are archaic or confusing.  Remember, it is a polemical  statement (taking a side, not trying for objective neutrality), and meant to justify a radical solution for a real problem.

    Hey dude, don't tumble the man unless you really needs to.  Modern English.  Or

    I takes all I can and then I can takes no more. From a  Popeye cartoon.

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