There were many goals that the colonists had in waging the Revolutionary War, and an innumerable amount of those goals contributed to America’s political system. A few of their goals were to convert into a country free of a king, become independent, get rid of all loyalists, equal rights between men and women, and slaves wanted to be freed. A great deal of these goals were accomplished, although they were not very easy to carry out. “The nearer any government approaches to a republic the less business there is for a king,” (Document 1). One of the colonists’ main goals was to be free of the king of England. Many people in the colonies believed he was a tyranny and wanted absolutely nothing to do with him. The only people that wanted to have a king or any political relations with England were the loyalists, or Tories. As Document 3 displays, the colonists wanted the loyalists out of their new to be country. Because they wanted the Tories out of the colonies, they hung them by a pole by their waste and tarred and feathered them. Many documents that the colonists wrote made a large contribution to their political system, which are still in effect in today’s political systems. Document 6 states, “...all men are born equally free and independent…enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and …show more content…
When the colonists broke off from Britain they made it clear that they wanted nothing to do with them, and that they basically strongly disliked them. It also enabled them to “...levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right to do,” (Document 2). When this happened, the political system was shaped into the political system that every country wants, besides slavery for