What does the first paragraph of the declaration of independence say?

it says that all people naturally and equally have certain basic rights which come from God, including Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. It says that the most important function of government is to protect these rights. That government has to have the consent of the people being governed and that those people have the right to set up their government in whatever form they think will best protect their rights. That the king of Great Britain and his government were not protecting the colonists rights but were taking them away. It then gives a long list of things the British had done to take away the colonists rights, including taxing them without their consent, closing down the colonial governments and sending the army to govern instead, taking away the right to trial by jury, waging war against the colonies and many other things. It says that because of all of this the colonies had been thrown out on their own and were therefor already independent of Great Britain and since that was the only way they could insure their freedom they were going to stay that way and fight as hard as they needed to to see to it. Compare what I have written here with the actual text of the Declaration (you can find it easily on line or in the Encyclopedia Britannica)and see if what I have said means the same thing as what Jefferson wrote.