"when in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with anther and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which 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."
Based on the passage, what does Thomas Jefferson mean about "the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's god entitle them"?