How old is the declaration of independence?

How to rewrite the Declaration of Independence in our modern language?

• I need help writing the Declaration of Independence in a more easier way for people to read. Basically in a way that people would understand faster and easier. This is the passage that i have to rewrite. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. 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. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

• Answer:

  As other have stated : The declaration of independence is clearly stated. Anyone who wants to rewrite it wants to add or subtract from it, and it is a document that is right on. Remember, this was 1776. We won independence from Britain, and had the articles of confederacy until 1789 -- this fulfills a clause in this document, changing forms of government. Many would argue that the last sentence encourages a new revolution against current government, as it has subjected us to a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing ... despotism... It is time for a revolution to reestablish these principles.