Independence Day - Let’s Declare our Independence
Useful to review:
The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States
https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/guides/M-654.pdf
“But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security….”
The King "has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing
Judiciary Powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, .. He has erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harrass our People, and eat out their Substance. He has kept among us, in Times of Peace, Standing Armies, without the consent of our Legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power…
...For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us, in many Cases, of the Benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offences…”
"He has excited domestic Insurrections amongst us…”
