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 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.

Homeland. Other work and fellowships
He served as Canadian Regional Director of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1999. ISBN 0-7653-1278-6.

Cory Efram Doctorow (/ˈkɒri ˈdɒktəroʊ/; born July 17 1971) is a Canadian-Britishblogger journalist and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the weblog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization using some of their licenses for his books.