The signers of the Declaration signed to please the public and to control the mayhem occurring. If they signed out of own wants or desires, the people could kick them out of government. On the first page of the Declaration of Independence it says,"it is their right,it is their duty, to throw off such government." Delegates are people that represent a colony or area. If they did what they wanted, it would go against why they are there. Since this was such an important document to history and to freedom, they can't send it to Britain blindly. They needed the approval of everyone to make sure an agreement had been made. In the Declaration, on page 2, it says,"and by authority of the good people." It also says,"an absolute tyranny over
