quired of persons by information collection requests, including to the extent practicable the direct budgetary costs of the agencies and identification of statutes and regulations which impose the greatest number of reporting hours; (4) a summary of accomplishments and planned initiatives to reduce burdens of Federal information collection requests; (5) a tabulation of areas of duplication in agency information collection requests identified during the preceding year and efforts made to preclude the collection of duplicate information, including designations of central collection agencies; (6) a list of each instance in which an agency engaged in the collection of information under the authority of section 3507(g) and an identification of each agency involved; (7) a list of all violations of provisions of this chapter and rules, regulations, guidelines, policies, and procedures issued pursuant to this chapter; (8) with respect to recommendations of the Commission on Federal Paperwork (A) a description of the specific actions taken on or planned for each recommendations; (B) a target date for implementing each recommendation accepted but not implemented; and (C) an explanation of the reasons for any delay in completing action on such recommendations; (9)(A) a summary of accomplishments in the improvement of, and planned initiatives to improve, Federal information resources management within agencies; (B) a detailed statement with respect to each agency of new initiatives to acquire information technology to improve such management; and (C) an analysis of the extent to which the policies, principles, standards, and guidelines issued and maintained pursuant to paragraphs (5) and (6) of section 3505 of this title promote or deter such new initiatives; and (10) with respect to the statistical policy and coordination functions described in section 3504(d) of this title (A) a description of the specific actions taken, or planned to be taken, to carry out each such function; (B) a description of the status of each major statistical program, including information on (i) any improvements in each such program; (ii) any program which has been reduced or eliminated; and (iii) the budget for each such program for the previous fiscal year and the fiscal year in progress and the budget proposed for each such program for the next fiscal year; and (C) a description and summary of the long-range plans currently in effect for the major Federal statistical activities and programs. (Pub. L. 96-511, § 2(a), Dec. 11, 1980, 94 Stat. 2823; Pub. L. 99-591, Title VIII, § 819, Oct. 30, 1986, 100 Stat. 3341.) [755] DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF THE 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. 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. Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the |