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He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

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Interest in the Declaration was revived in the 1790s with the emergence of the United States's first political parties. [125] Throughout the 1780s, few Americans knew or cared who wrote the Declaration. [126] But in the next decade, Jeffersonian Republicans sought political advantage over their rival Federalists by promoting both the importance of the Declaration and Jefferson as its author. [127] [18] :168–171 Federalists responded by casting doubt on Jefferson's authorship or originality, and by emphasizing that independence was declared by the whole Congress, with Jefferson as just one member of the drafting committee. Federalists insisted that Congress's act of declaring independence, in which Federalist John Adams had played a major role, was more important than the document announcing it. [128] [18] :171 But this view faded away, like the Federalist Party itself, and, before long, the act of declaring independence became synonymous with the document.

I think my favourite colour is probably yellow — it's not a colour I'd ever wear, but when I walk into a yellow room I immediately feel uplifted. It's probably because yellow is the colour of sunshine; because it's bright and bold and carefree. It was his eyes, so challenging and with a piercing look about them. They were eyes that trusted in nothing and they made her uncomfortable around him, self-conscious.” Lots of things inspired me to write The Declaration, but the most important one was an article I read in a newspaper, which was about how scientific breakthroughs meant that within a few years, we could all be living much longer, and about a scientist who said it was the moral duty of the scientific community to do everything it could to extend the life span of humans — perhaps indefinitely. And as I read this article, I began to think that if everyone lived forever, or even for a very long time, there wouldn't be any room on the earth for us all before too long. And then I wondered if, maybe, if everyone lived forever, people would have to stop having children. That seemed to me the most appalling and horrific idea, and as soon as I'd had it, the idea of Anna came to me. Actually, she didn't just come to me as an idea — she had soon moved into my head full time and wouldn't let me rest until the book had been written. Neither aiming at originality of principle or sentiment, nor yet copied from any particular and previous writing, it was intended to be an expression of the American mind, and to give to that expression the proper tone and spirit called for by the occasion. [63]

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The Declaration of Independence was signed by 56 delegates to the Second Continental Congress, who came to be known as the nation's Founding Fathers. The signatories include delegates from New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. The declaration became one of the most circulated and widely reprinted documents in early American history. There is a distinct change in wording from this original broadside printing of the Declaration and the final official engrossed copy. The word "unanimous" was inserted as a result of a Congressional resolution passed on July 19, 1776: "Resolved, That the Declaration passed on the 4th, be fairly engrossed on parchment, with the title and stile of 'The unanimous declaration of the thirteen United States of America,' and that the same, when engrossed, be signed by every member of Congress." [58] Historian George Athan Billias says: "Independence amounted to a new status of interdependence: the United States was now a sovereign nation entitled to the privileges and responsibilities that came with that status. America thus became a member of the international community, which meant becoming a maker of treaties and alliances, a military ally in diplomacy, and a partner in foreign trade on a more equal basis." [59] Annotated text of the engrossed declaration Yet if he should give up what he has begun, seeking to make us or our kingdom subject to the King of England or the English, we should exert ourselves at once to drive him out as our enemy and a subverter of his own right and ours, and make some other man who was well able to defend us our King . . . He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. Outlines a general philosophy of government that justifies revolution when government harms natural rights. [60]

Craigie, James, ed. Minor Prose Works of James VI and James I. Scottish Text Society, 1982: 217–241. the British have produced such conditions and, by necessity, the colonies must throw off political ties with the British Crown and become independent states. He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. I loved English and History — loved stories and words. I never really enjoyed Geography — I was interested in foreign lands, but all we seemed to do was study ordinance survey maps and learn about population growth.

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Amongst the activities that were prohibited were bear- and bull-baiting, "interludes" and bowling. [1] Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference

The Declaration is a letter from the barons and the community of the realm of Scotland to Pope John XXII, dated 6th April 1320. It sets out Scotland’s status as an independent kingdom, supporting Robert the Bruce’s title as King of Scots and asking the Pontiff to persuade the English King (Edward II) to end hostilities against the Scots. Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.