Because mankind is 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 [the people's] right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

please speak modern english, son :)

Sorry friend, but english has been modern since around the sixteenth or seventeenth century, depending on how you look at it. The language of shakespeare is literally the language of today. The changes since then have been minor when compared to the history of the language.

I know, I just was joking around :)

That is modern english... all the words still work

Slightly broken things stay slightly broken forever, things that don't work get replaced. Or at least that's what I learned from the "real world" business so far. That unfortunately also means that if you really want something fixed properly, sometimes it's easier to just break it completely than convince loads of people it needs replacing before it breaks...

relevant cartoon: http://www.flickr.com/photos/monkchips/4254681996/

Nobody was waiting for really bad things to happen. The current system was in place before the bad people got there.

As an example, nobody was worrying about an AIDS vaccine in the early 1700s...because AIDS wasn't a problem then.