[elwoodblues]

How can you square the fact that you think deleting the clause would change nothing but you claim it to not be superfluous?

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The authors of the Declaration of Independence saw fit to provide an explanation as to the causes that impelled them to the separation...

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The Declaration of Independence is a very different document than the Constitution with a very different purpose. That the Declaration of Independence does something is completely irrelevant.

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The second part of the Amendment would be very clear even on its own, and to me it does not make sense (or seem proper interpretation of the English language) to assign a fully pivotal importance to the subservient clause, for to do so would in effect elevate the subservient clause in importance over the central clause.

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So, as a result of this belief, you assign no interpretive meaning at all to the first clause. The first clause provides no limitation at all on the second, it can be deleted and nothing would change at all, and yet you don't think it's superfluous.