1/24/2017

               The Declaration of independence was our way of detaching from Brittan two future presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson signed it, and it was also signed by Ben Franklin and was written by Thomas Jefferson as well although it was not signed by anyone representing Georgia. In the text there are two major parts the first was the colonists listing the things King George did that made them want to leave Brittan some examples are the refusal of laws the colonists tried to pass, failing to keep a well laid government and starting war with them, for cutting of their trade with the rest of the world, for taxing them without their consent, for throwing them in jail without trial, and taking them across a oceans for things we didn’t do. Next, they explained this with worldwide context saying “Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. 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.” Which is saying that they have every right to leave Brittan and become their own nation.