POLITICAL THEORY

• All men are created equal
• The right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness
• It is the right of the people to alter or abolish destructive government

POLITICAL THEORY

INJURIES AND USURPATIONS

• Forbidden laws of pressing importance
• Dissolved representative houses
• Cutting off their trade
• Taxation without representation

INJURIES AND USURPATIONS

• No benefits of trial by jury
• Abolishing charters and the most valuable laws

FORMAL PROCLAMATION

• Full power to levy war
• Can conclude peace
• Create alliances and commerce
• Right to do what independent states can do