Entitle means "to give." Impel means "to force."
When people "dissolve the political bands which
have connected them with another," they are
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.
- The Declaration of Independence
The writers of the Declaration of Independence
were justifying their plan to
When people break such bands, they should