INDEPENDENCE FROM BRITAIN

POLITICAL THEORY

• All men are created equal
• Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness
• Right of People to alter or abolish

POLITICAL THEORY

• It is their right to overthrow
• Provide new guards for their future society.

INJURIES AND USURPATIONS

• History of repeated injuries
• Forbidden governments to pass laws
• Dissolved Representative Houses

INJURIES AND USURPATIONS

• Refused others to be elected
• Refused to establish Judiciary powers.
• Cutting off trade with the world.

FORMAL PROCLAMATION OF INDEPENDENCE

• Rectitude of our intentions
• By the Authority of the people of the colonies
• Free and Independent states

FORMAL PROCLAMATION OF INDEPENDANCE

• Political connection with Britain dissolved
• Full power to levy war
• Pledge to each other our Lives