DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

POLITICAL THEORY

• All men are created equal
• They are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights.
• Form of government becomes destructive it is the right of the people to abolish it.

POLITICAL THEORY

• Governments are instituted amount men deriving their just powers
• Their right, it is their duty to throw off such government and to provide new Gaurds for their future security.

INJURIES AND USURPATIONS

• He has refused his Assent to laws
• He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance
• He has dissolved Representative houses repeatedly

INJURIES AN USURPATIONS

• Cutting off our trade
• Imposing taxes without our consent
• Suspending our own legislators
• Plundered our seas ravaged our coasts.

FORMAL PROCLAMATION

• These United Colonies are and of right out to be free and independent states.
• Absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown

FORMAL PROCLAMATION

• Full power to levy war
• Contract alliances
• All other things which independent states may of right do.
• Pledge our sacred honor