What does the phrase “dissolve the political bands” mean in paragraph 1 of this passage? to revolt against authority to restructure a government to elect new leadership to end the relationship with a government here is the paragraph (: when in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and 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.