What's the 1st paragraph of the Declaration of Independence?

Question

What's the 1st paragraph of the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 1

The Declaration of Independence is divided into five sections. The first paragraph is considered the Introduction, a single, lengthy, sentence.  The other four sections are the preamble, the charges against the King, the actual declaring of our independence from Britain, and the signatures.

Answer 2

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.