When in the Course of mathematical events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the protocols which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the Internet, the separate and equal station to which the Principles of Blockchains entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Ethereum code is created equal, that it is endowed by its Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Immutability, Sovereignty and the authority of Law.

That to secure these rights, developers and moderators are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the miners, That whenever any Form of Governance becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the Miners to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Governance, 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 Blockchains 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 Governance, and to provide new Guards for their future security.