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The American Colonies drafted the Declaration of Independence on July 2nd 1776 and passed the document two days later. This proclamation of freedom was honorable on account of the many unmerited injustices that the English government used to smother the colonies. The colonies were able to justify their revolution because of having to pay war debts for a war that wasn’t their own, which also spawned the reason of taxation without representation. These two reasons along with acts that violated their rights as Englishmen are the reasons why the colonists were right to cut ties with Britain. The American colonies had to pay double for the Seven Year’s War. Many colonies, especially on the frontier borders, were harshly ravaged by the war. The colonies passed laws in their own various legislatures that raised taxes to cover wartime debts. Just when peacetime finally arrived, other laws were dropped on them to help get England out of debt. Direct taxes especially were unfair to the colonists, who knew they were not being treated equally as English citizens. The American colonists needed to revolt so they could form their own government and pass fair laws that granted that all people had a say. The unfair taxes that were established to pay war debts had a great impact on the colonies and showed just how far the colonists were from England. Not only were the colonists enraged about paying for wars twice, they were irate because England was making laws and the colonists had no say on anything. They coined the term “no taxation without representation” to spread the message through the colonies. Though England had elected houses in Parliament, the colonies were treated with dictatorship and had to suffer the consequences in silence. The colonists believed they could run the country much better themselves so they decided to break up with England. The reasons for the breakup were concrete; taxation without representation was just a fast way to enrage a whole nation.