THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

POLITICAL THEORY

• Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
• When the government becomes destructive, the people have to the right to change or abolish it.

POLITICAL THEORY

• All men are created equal
• It is the duty of the people to throw off a destructive government

INJURIES AND USERPATIONS

• He has affected to render the military independent of, and superior to, the Civil Power.
• He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection, and waging war on us.

INJURIES ANE USURPATIONS

• He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
• He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.