DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

POLITICAL THEORY OF THE DECLARATION

• All men are equal
• Governments are instituted among men
• People have the right to alter or abolish any form of government

POLITICAL THEORY OF THE DECLARATION

• Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
• Peoples right to throw off abusive government and provide new guards for their future security.

THE INJURIES AND USURPRATIONS

• King George
• Refused his assent to laws
• Dissolved representative houses
• Endeavor end to prevent the population of the states

THE INJURIES AND USURPATIONS

• Rendered the military independent of the civil power
• Protected the people he combined with to subject the people
• Quartile large bodies of troops among the states

FORMAL PROCLAMATION

• Absolved from all allegiance of the British crown
• Political connection between them and the states will be dissolved

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FORMAL PROCLAMATION

• States have full power to levy war
• Contract alliance
• Establish commerce
• Pledge to each other their lives, fortunes and sacred honor