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He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; givin
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these S
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
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For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and
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, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, alre
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the execu
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the mercile
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have bee
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their le
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme
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Main Ideas of the Declaration of Independence
All men are created equal.
All men have basic human rights given to them by God.
The only reason to have a government is to protect these basic
human rights, which Jefferson lists as "life, liberty, and the pursuit
of happiness."
Government must be by the consent of the governed.
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Main Ideas of the Declaration of Independence
All men are created equal.
All men have basic human rights given to them by God.
The only reason to have a government is to protect these basic human rights, which
Jefferson lists as "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
Government must be by the consent of the governed.
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Main Ideas of the Declaration of Independence
All men are created equal.
All men have basic human rights given to them by God.
Government must be by the consent of the governed.
The only reason to have a government is to protect these basic human rights, which
Jefferson lists as "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."