Signing of the Declaration of Independence
1. Democratic Principles
The Declaration mainly focuses on the idea that humans should be separate and equal. It states some of the peoples' unalienable rights (life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness) and that the people have the right to abolish any government they find to be against those rights, and create a new one. It emphasizes how the U.S. suffered under British rule and that they therefore have a right to build themselves a new government.
2. List of grievances
Some of the complaints made against King George were of his refusal to pass laws the people deemed important, his unfair practices relating to politics and refusal of voting, discouraging things like immigration for his own benefit, attempting to control and suppress the American government, trying to control the population with armed people to whom he gave protection, cutting off their trading, and taxing and trying people without good reason. He's also accused of destroying the lives of many Americans.
3. Conclusion
Their petitions to the king before had only been met with injury, and they label the king a tyrant. Finally, it states that they've warned the king multiple times before of the unfair measures they'd been placing over them and they were getting sick of it, and they declared themselves dissolved from any political relationship with Britain.
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