DECLARATION

POLITICAL THEORY

• All equally created
• Rights of: life,liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
• Right to abolish the government if it becomes destructive.

POLITICAL THEORY

• It's the peoples duty to overthrow it.
• Also to provide new guards for future security.

INJURIES AND USURPATIONS

• Imposing taxes on us without consent.
• Suspending our own legislators.
• Taking away or charters.
• Refused his assent to laws.

INJURIES AND USURPATIONS

• Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us.
• Plundered our seas and ravaged our Coasts.
• Erected a multitude of new offices.

FORMAL PROCLAMATION

• Declare that the united colonies are free and independent states.
• They have the power to levy war and conclude peace.

FORMAL PROCLAMTION

• Also have the right to contract alliances, establish commerce, and all the things that independent states have the right to do.