Declaration of Independence

Robert Morris was the one who had financed the Revolutionary War!

At that time the colonies were in revolt against Britain, which wanted to keep them in the Empire by all means including war. The Declaration was necessary as a formal statement to Britain and the world that the colonies intended to be free of British rule.

If Britain had voluntarily given the colonies their freedom (or otherwise addressed their many grievances, as suggested by Lord North) there would have been no need for them to declare independence unilaterally.

indictment; BRITISH

Six months

The actual reason for the Declaration of Independence was not only to make law but to formally explain why Congress had voted on July 2 to declare independence from Great Britain, more than a year after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, and too keep all of those things from happening again.

well... John Loke's veiws were that every one is born with 3 natual rights.

life, libety, and property and the doc (declaration of independance)

insures that the gov. will protect those rights

natural rights

In America, landowning white men had access to rights that women, native americans, african slaves, and other men who didnt own property did not

Taken away American rights.

Both list wrongs that had been done to people

Yes there is. Check out the movie National Treasure. It's made by Disney so it's not taken seriously by the general public but it is actually based on a true story. In the 80's a professor from Princeton actually stole the Declaration of Independence from Hoover Dam and used Vinegar (not lemon juice like in the movie) to "reveal" the map on the back of the document. No one knows for sure where the map led to but some scholars speculate that it revealed the location of the lost city of Atlantis, ruled by King Leonidas.

The British Parliament(1774) passes an act that force American colonists to house British troop in their home.

So the Third Amendment now protects us from that happening to us.

Alter or abolish the government

both stated the same things

The grievances complained of are: He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands. He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature. He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation: For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states: For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world: For imposing taxes on us without our consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury: For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses: For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule in these colonies: For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments: For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

to break free from great Britain and explain why we need to break free

to announce the decision of the colonies to sever their ties to England.

Boycotting

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose char­acter is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free People.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We hae reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpa­tions, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

the end of British taxes

Independence Hall of Philadelphia was chosen for the back of the 100 dollar bill because it is a historical spot in US history. It is the location of where the US Constitution and Declaration of Independence were debated.

Thomas Jefferson is most closely associated with the Declaration of Independence, as he was the principal author of the document. Drafted in 1776, the Declaration articulated the American colonies' reasons for seeking independence from British rule. Jefferson's eloquent writing and philosophical ideas about liberty and government significantly shaped the document's impact and legacy.

on parchment

it explains the complains to king george 3

NO. The Declaration of Independence was NOT written in 1607.

The Declaration of Independence was written on July 4th, 1776 by Thomas Jefferson. Hence, July Fourth = Independence Day.