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  1. Oct 2020
    1. 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.

      These are very hard words to describe how the foreign mercenaries treated the colonists. These descriptive words exemplifies how the American Colonists felt they were being treated.

    2. For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

      This means that Britain wanted to expand its boundaries to gain more power over the land of people in the colonies, yet their were not properly equipped to do so.

    3. the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them

      This relates to why some of the colonists migrated to the New world in the place. People that fled to the new world were not being treated properly and that relates to what the colonists were feeling.

    4. unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

      The king would not let the people create their own laws and then when they did, they ignored them and left the colonies out to dry.

    5. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

      It is important that the reasons for leaving Britain is outlined so the king had an understand of why they wanted to separate. These reasons are only coming from the elites writing this declaration of independence and it does not highlight the opinions of the average colonists. These reasons speak for the colonies as a whole and not individuals, who would might have had more to say.

    6. usurpations

      A usurper is an illegitimate or controversial claimant to power, often but not always in a monarchy. In other words, a person who takes the power of a country, city, or established region for themselves, without any formal or legal right to claim it as their own.

    7. that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

      This means that people are more likely to suffer when they want to keep what they know instead of trying to implement something new. This is important to be included into the document for the reason that if nothing would be changed the colonists would still be in the sufferable position that they were in with Britain.

    8. that all men are created equal,

      This is ironic due to the fact that when the people writing this document had held slaves but they are stating all men are created equal. The irony is that in fact not all men are created equal because if they were then the slaves would have been free when this was written.