Rewrite the sentence below from the Declaration of Independence using the contemporary syntax of multiple, shorter sentences with less-formal language. You can change or add words as needed. 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.