Examples of Bad Design

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Examples of Bad Design
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• When in the Course of human events,
• it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve
  the political bands which have connected them
  with another,
• 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
• the pursuit of Happiness.

Declaration of Independence United States of
America
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• When in the Course of human events,
• it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve
  the political bands which have connected them
  with another,
• 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
• the pursuit of Happiness.

Declaration of Independence United States of
America
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• When in the Course of human events,
• it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve
  the political bands which have connected them
  with another,
• 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
• the pursuit of Happiness.
• That to secure these rights, Governments are
  instituted among Men, deriving their just powers
  from the consent of the governed,

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• 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
• the pursuit of Happiness.

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• He has refused his Assent to Laws,
• He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws
• He has refused to pass other Laws for the
  accommodation of large districts of people,
  unless those people would relinquish the right of
  Representation in the Legislature,
• He has called together legislative bodies at
  places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from
  the depository of their public Records
• He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly
• He has refused for a long time, after such
  dissolutions, to cause others to be elected
• He has endeavoured to prevent the population of
  these States

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• He has refused his Assent to Laws
• He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws
• He has refused to pass other Laws for the
  accommodation of large districts of people,
  unless those people would relinquish the right of
  Representation in the Legislature
• He has called together legislative bodies at
  places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from
  the depository of their public Records
• He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly
• He has refused for a long time, after such
  dissolutions, to cause others to be elected
• He has endeavoured to prevent the population of
  these States

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• He has refused his Assent to Laws,
• He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws
• He has refused to pass other Laws for the
  accommodation of large districts of people,
  unless those people would relinquish the right of
  Representation in the Legislature,
• He has called together legislative bodies at
  places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from
  the depository of their public Records
• He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly
• He has refused for a long time, after such
  dissolutions, to cause others to be elected
• He has endeavoured to prevent the population of
  these States

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• He has refused his Assent to Laws
• He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws
• He has refused to pass other Laws for the
  accommodation of large districts of people,
  unless those people would relinquish the right of
  Representation in the Legislature
• He has called together legislative bodies at
  places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from
  the depository of their public Records
• He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly
• He has refused for a long time, after such
  dissolutions, to cause others to be elected
• He has endeavoured to prevent the population of
  these States