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Issues In The Declaration Of Independence Essay

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In The Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson writes, “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…” Thomas Jefferson is saying that when a group of people aren’t being treated how they should they need to separate from each other instead of suffer. The problems when asking for better treatment, which led to the colonists wanting independence from the king were unfair treatment, refusal of rights, and inequality. The first problem the colonists had with Britain was unfair treatment from the King. The King wanted the colonists to struggle, so he made all the colonists suffer by transporting them overseas and having unfair court trials to make them guilty. According to the Declaration of Independence “For transporting us beyond Seas to be …show more content…

Many of the colonists felt that they were just slaves to the king and they didn’t like that so it motivated them to stand up to the king. According to Patrick Henry’s speech in the Virginia Convention,”For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate.” Henry is saying that he doesn’t feel that the king has taken his right of freedom and that he feels like a slave to the king and states that the people shouldn’t be happy about what has been happening to them. The colonists were also upset over the fact that the King imposed many things on the colonists without their say in anything. According to the Declaration of independence,”For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent.” Jefferson is speaking for all colonists who are upset that the king has introduced taxes on the colonists, but that the colonists had no representation in parliament so they couldn’t fight back to stop

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