DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

POLITICAL THEORY OF THE DECLARATION

• All men are created equal
• Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness
• Right of the people to abolish government

POLITICAL THEORY OF DECLARATION

• Is is their right to throw off such government
• Organize their powers as they seem most effective to their happiness

INJURIES AND USURPATIONS

• Forbidden governors to pass laws
• Refused to pass laws for the accommodation of large districts
• Dissolved representative house repeatedly

INJURIES AND USURPATIONS

• Made judges depend on his will alone
• Kept among us in time of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislators

FORMAL PROCLAMATION OF INDEPENDENCE

• Ought to be free and independent states
• Absolved from all allegiance from the British crown

FORMAL PROCLAMATION OF INDEPENDENCE

• All political connection ought to be totally rpdissolved
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