DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

UNAMIMOUS DECLARATION

• Necessary to dissolve political bands
• Assume separate and equal station to the Laws of Nature
• Decent respect to mankind

POLITICAL THEORY

• All men are creted equal
• Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness
• Abolish forms to which they are accustomed to

POLITICAL THEORY

INJURIES AND USURPATIONS

• Refused to Assent to Laws
• Forbidden governors to pass laws
• Dissolved representative houses completely

INJURY AND USURPATIONS

• Cutting off trade with all parts of the world
• Imposing taxes without consent
• Depriving of trial by jury

FORMAL DECLARATION

• These United Colonies of right ought to be Free and Independent states

FORMAL PROCLAMATION

• They have full power to levy war and conclude peace