Declaration of Independence Evidence-5th period by Rylie Stanton

RS

ryliestanton1 — 2025-12-22 18:13:09 UTC

"he has dissovled representative assemblies repeatedly,f or opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people

KM + RP

2025-12-22 18:18:19 UTC

"it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another"

AW & SG

2025-12-22 18:18:56 UTC

"... a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."

RP + KM

2025-12-22 18:19:45 UTC

"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

IJ TL

2025-12-22 18:20:26 UTC

"the Second Continental Congress voted to declare the united States of America separate and independent from Britain."

BS DS

2025-12-22 18:20:38 UTC

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

RP KM

2025-12-22 18:21:14 UTC

''He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.''

AW & SG

2025-12-22 18:21:28 UTC

"We hold the truths to be self-evident, all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

RP KM

2025-12-22 18:21:46 UTC

"For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world"

TK, BW

2025-12-22 18:22:44 UTC

"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government"

RP KM

2025-12-22 18:22:49 UTC

"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."

KM + RP

2025-12-22 18:22:51 UTC

''We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here.''

IJ TL

2025-12-22 18:23:27 UTC

"With their assemblies dissolved and unable to elect new representatives, colonists were in effect without local government".

BS DS

2025-12-22 18:23:40 UTC

"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.1"

NH+MW

2025-12-22 18:23:41 UTC

''The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object of the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these States

AW & SG

2025-12-22 18:23:44 UTC

"When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands that have connected to each other"

KM + RP

2025-12-22 18:24:24 UTC

''...and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do.''

RP KM

2025-12-22 18:24:34 UTC

"That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved"

TK, BW

2025-12-22 18:24:37 UTC

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."

IJ TL

2025-12-22 18:24:43 UTC

TK, BW

2025-12-22 18:25:20 UTC

"In several instances, the king instructed royal governors to block pending colonial legislation. At times, months or years would pass before the king addressed a colonial enactment, if ever."

NH+MW

2025-12-22 18:25:32 UTC

'' a decent respect to opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation''

BS DS

2025-12-22 18:25:39 UTC

"From 1773 to 1776 North Carolina had no superior courts due to a stalemate between its assembly and the governor over the assembly’s insistence on allowing “attachments” (similar to garnishment) to seize British debtors’ property, a practice banned by Parliament"

ANG

2025-12-22 18:25:51 UTC

''colonies and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government''

BS DS

2025-12-22 18:25:53 UTC

"He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good."

IJ TL

2025-12-22 18:26:19 UTC

"After 1763, the king assented to laws of Parliament that many colonists considered illegitimate, coercive, and punitive (“pretended legislation”), one creating a new colonial Board of Trade (a “jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution”) that enforced new trade laws and taxes".

TK, BW

2025-12-22 18:26:41 UTC

"In late 1775 the governor of Virginia offered freedom to slaves who would fight with the British, leading to numerous rumors of British-incited slave revolts (“domestic insurrections”) in the southern colonies. Royal governors also incited Indian attacks on backcountry settlers."

AW & SG

2025-12-22 18:26:44 UTC

"But when a long train of abuses and usurptions, pursuing, invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to show off government, and to provide new guards for their future security"

BS DS

2025-12-22 18:26:52 UTC

"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."

NH+MW

2025-12-22 18:27:05 UTC

''He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers''

BS DS

2025-12-22 18:27:16 UTC

TH RM

2025-12-22 18:27:17 UTC

''In 1774, Parliament closed the port of Boston and in 1775, with the outbreak of war, ordered the total blockade of American shipping.''

BS DS

2025-12-22 18:27:51 UTC

"We, therefore, the representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."

2025-12-22 18:28:16 UTC

''For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world''

AW & SG

2025-12-22 18:28:24 UTC

"In 1774, parliment closed the port of Boston and in 1775, with the outbreak of war, ordered the total blockage of American shipping"

NH+MW

2025-12-22 18:28:29 UTC

He has made Judges dependant on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries

TL IJ

2025-12-22 18:28:31 UTC

"therefore, the representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States".

AW and SG

2025-12-22 18:29:41 UTC

" In 1774 parliment authorized that British soldiers that were accused of murder could be sent to Britain for trial instead of being tried in America with a jury of colonists"

TL IJ

2025-12-22 18:30:02 UTC

2025-12-22 18:30:05 UTC

they felt inslaved

TK,BW

2025-12-22 18:30:08 UTC

"We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us."

AW & SG

2025-12-22 18:31:04 UTC

"In every stage of these Oppressisions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms"

NH+MW

2025-12-22 18:31:11 UTC

''We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us''

TK,BW

2025-12-22 18:31:35 UTC

"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."

ANG

2025-12-22 18:32:16 UTC

"we hold the truths to be self evident ,all men are created equal that they are endowed by their creators with certain unalienable rights that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness .

AW and SG

2025-12-22 18:32:23 UTC

" Authority of the good people of these colonies solemnly published and declared."

NH+MW

2025-12-22 18:32:34 UTC

''-by authority of the good people of these colonies solemnly publish and declare that these united colonies are and of right ought to be free and independent states.''