CODE IS LAW, but when in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another,

CODE IS LAW, but 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. Code is law, but there is no law which we can't abolish, especially when the law stops serving the purpose for which the law was established.