EEG+Justification+of+American+Revolution

The subjects of Great Britain in the American colonies officially revolted against their king through the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Their rights stripped from them, the colonies believed that the only way to prosper was to break from the place of their ancestors. __Believing that they themselves were Englishman, they justified separation with the loss of their rights.__ The Declaration was a simple way of expressing their views.

Their rights that they believed were infringed upon as Englishmen. Their charters all had recieved statements within that the people of the colony were still Englishmen and retained the right to have several things such as a trial by jury of their peers and ability to have representation in parliment. A trial by jury was quickly taken away in some places by the Writs of Assistance and the martial law declared after the Boston Tea Party. The trial by jury allowed for the mind-set of innocent until proven guilty, but the acts passed during this time reversed the order; they are now guilty until proven innocent. These small infringements angered many colonists who questioned the authority of British rule when they were being punished for the isolated incidents acted out by the terrorists, the Sons of Liberty. The unrest was also caused when a direct tax was put upon the colonists. Without representation in parliment, however, they could not vote for any laws to be vetoed or passed. The outraged colonists chanted a battle cry known to many Americans: no taxation without representation. Even Benjamin Franklin, a respected citizen in both the Americas and Europe, went to England to protest this sudden direct taxation of the colonists. The removal of these two basic English rights had a direct effect on the events leading up to the Revolution.

In addition, the Declaration of Independence was written for the purpose of showing the exact justifications of the split. The colonists, with the fifty-five representatives from twelve of the colonies (excluding Georgia), decided to put all of their complaints on paper and send it to the king. They complained about their lost rights: right to trial by jury, right to the area past the Appilation Mountains, and the right to have peace in their own homes. The return of the French with the Quebec act confused and angered the colonists, causing wonder about what they were fighting for seven yearts to obtain. The freedom granted to them was no longer allowed; the fact of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness was revoked with the end of saliatory neglect by the government of England. Last, but certainly not least, their battle cry was repeated, and the remebered killings in Boston and the lives lost at Lexington and Concord would see themselves revenged for the injustice by the people of Britain.