DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

POLITICAL THEORY

• All men are created equal
• Right of the people to overthrow government
• Unalienable rights (life, liberty, pursuit of happiness)

POLITICAL THEORY

• Right to appoint new government
• Government should not be changed for light causes

INJURIES AND USURPATIONA

• Forbid governors to pass important laws
• Called legislative bodies together in unusual places
• Dissolved representatives repeatedly

INJURIES AND USURPATIONS

• Quartering large bodies of troops
• Took away charters
• Suspending legislatures

FORMAL PROCLAMATION

• United Colonies should be free states
• Absolved from all allegiance to the British crown
• Connection between them and Britain should be dissolved

FORMAL PROCLAMATION

• Have full power to levy war
• Power to establish commerce
• Act completely as independence states