I wish to inform and assure you that the American War for Independence indeed constitutes the colonists' justified rebellion. We are employing only the grandest of causes in our fight -- rights, independence, and our liberty.
You will remember that throughout the 1760s and early 1770s, we found ourselves increasingly at odds with British imperial policies regarding taxation and frontier policy which eventually culminated in parliament's declaration that it can "of right make laws to bind us in all cases whatsoever" (Setting Forth the Causes and Necessity of Their Taking up Arms). "What, [I beseech you,] is to defend us against so enormous and unlimited a power? Not a single man of those who assume it, is chosen by us; or is subject to our control or influence; but, on the contrary, they are all exempt from such laws and from American revenue. We have incessantly and ineffectually besieged the throne as supplicants; we have reasoned and remonstrated with parliament in the most mild and decent language" (Setting Forth the Causes and Necessity of Their Taking up Arms) to no avail. "In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the …show more content…
"Samuel told all the words of the Lord unto the people that asked of him a king" (1 Sm 8:10 [KJV]). Because a king will always take the best his subjects have to offer for himself and his servants, his subjects "shall cry out in that day because of [their] king which [they] have chosen" (1 Sm 8:10). However, "the King of [an independent] America . . . [will] reign from above and not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Great Britain. America's crown will be placed on the Divine Law, the Word of God; by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarchy, in America the law is king. For as in absolute governments the King is law, in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other" (Paine,
You will remember that throughout the 1760s and early 1770s, we found ourselves increasingly at odds with British imperial policies regarding taxation and frontier policy which eventually culminated in parliament's declaration that it can "of right make laws to bind us in all cases whatsoever" (Setting Forth the Causes and Necessity of Their Taking up Arms). "What, [I beseech you,] is to defend us against so enormous and unlimited a power? Not a single man of those who assume it, is chosen by us; or is subject to our control or influence; but, on the contrary, they are all exempt from such laws and from American revenue. We have incessantly and ineffectually besieged the throne as supplicants; we have reasoned and remonstrated with parliament in the most mild and decent language" (Setting Forth the Causes and Necessity of Their Taking up Arms) to no avail. "In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the …show more content…
"Samuel told all the words of the Lord unto the people that asked of him a king" (1 Sm 8:10 [KJV]). Because a king will always take the best his subjects have to offer for himself and his servants, his subjects "shall cry out in that day because of [their] king which [they] have chosen" (1 Sm 8:10). However, "the King of [an independent] America . . . [will] reign from above and not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Great Britain. America's crown will be placed on the Divine Law, the Word of God; by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarchy, in America the law is king. For as in absolute governments the King is law, in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other" (Paine,