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Declaration Of Independence

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

HANNAH YARBROUGH
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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
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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.
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THE INJURIES AND USURPRATIONS

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