Purpose: To declare themselves Independent from Britain because the King has been unjust in his rulings over them and the laws, taxes, and acts placed upon them are similar to those imposed by tyrants.
Thesis statement: We are breaking away from Britain as our overseas ruler and here are the reasons why:
Paragraph 1: We hold these truths to be self-evident, all men are created equal, men are granted the power to take away government and change for the betterment of the people.
Paragraph 2: The colonists have been suffering for so long under this tyrannical rule. The things that King/England has done are going to be listed, as necessary for the world to view.
Point 1: He has refused to agree to our laws that we wanted to pass that concerned the betterment of the people.
Point 2: He isn't letting Governors pass laws that matter. The important laws that are needed quickly are being delayed in their operation
Point 3: He is refusing to pass laws that cater to the small groups of people being able to vote, considering that their vote will instantly and always get overshadowed by the majority. (the King and Parliament.)
Point 4: He has placed legislative meeting places, gatherings, and buildings in inconvenient areas far from their ruling cities just for the fact that the commute and distance will bother them.
Point 5: Any party or legislative group that disagrees with his (The King's) opinions and laws have been dissolved and shut down.
Point 6: After many months of bargaining, he has refused to let the people have a say in the election of legislature.
Point 7: He has tried to hinder the population growth of the States and limiting the citizenship of those who are immigrating, discouraging future voyagers.
Point 8: He hasn't given the people in America judiciary powers and believes that they must be tried in England.
Point 9: He has made the decision on who shall be judges and how long they shall serve a term.
Point 10: He has issued more offices in the New World and sent his soldiers over to eat the food the American people worked hard for and to harass the people.
Point 11: He is keeping armies in the country without the consent of the America legislatures.
Point 12: He has rendered the militia separate from the high command.
Point 13: He has boxed us in to a jurisdiction that isn't compatible with the land that most people own past the line in the land he drew. He also has applied some other horrendous acts as follows:
a. Quartering soldiers in American peoples' houses without consent.
b. Protecting soldiers from prosecution from the cold murder they commit on the American people.
c. Cutting off imported goods, and executing trade systems.
d. Giving new, unwanted taxes.
e. Making us go to Europe to be tried and disabling jury trials.
f. When sent overseas, the counts we are tried on are nothing but pretend/petty offences.
g. He took away the rights of Americans and used America as an extended boundary to Britain and uses it just as an offshore instrument of issuing power and authority.
h. Taking away charters of land that have been our property for years, making governments and laws altered and strange.
i. For delaying the process of legislative powers and granting their own presence higher in the American government.
Point 14: It's been said by him that we are no longer under English protection due to the very forces that wage war upon as in fact, the English...
Point 15: He has taken from our harbours, burnt down our towers, taken from our shores, and really made the American life regress with their ruthless destruction.
Point 16: At the moment, he is transporting large groups of more troops and mercenaries to come do further damages to our wounded land.
Point 17: He has taken our own prisoner and forced them to fight against their homeland.
Point 18: He has encouraged the Indians who have a very harsh war style to fight against us.
Paragraph 3: In every way, shape, and form we have tried diplomacy to have Him rethink his policies and outlandish laws but to no avail. Every act has made Him appear more and more as a tyrant.
Paragraph 4: We have warned them that if they continue this way of treating us, there will be repercussions. He will rebel. There will be an uprising.
Paragraph 5: We are now declaring we've had enough, that we are now a country of our own. We are the United States of America and we are standing up to Britain because we have had it!
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