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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

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POLITICAL THEORY

  • We hold these truths to be self evident.
  • Unalienable rights life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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POLITICAL THEORY

  • Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it.
  • It is their duty to throw off such government and to provide new guards for their future security.
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INJURIES AND USURPATIONS

  • Such as been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government.
  • The history of the present kind of Great Britain.
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INJURIES AND USURPATIONS

  • Refused to asset laws
  • Forbidden his governors to pass laws
  • He has called together legislative bodies
  • He has obstructed the Administration of justice
  • He has affected to render the military independent

FORMAL PROCLAMATION

  • These colonies are ought to be free and independent states.
  • They are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown.
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FORMAL PROCLAMATION

  • Full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, and establish commerce.
  • We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.