Many colonists are rallying for Independence from Great Britain through protest, boycotts, and even war. The Patriots are willing to take on a war against the greatest and strongest empire in the world despite the fact that it will bring about countless casualties. It is important that we as subjects of Great Britain take a step back and look at the faults in the plan to gain Independence, because ideologically and pragmatically rallying for this cause will prove to be detrimental to all. Although the Declaration of Independence looks promising there are many faults
Ideologically, as subjects of the British Empire it is illegal and unjust to participate in an armed rebellion against our mother country, and more importantly against our king …show more content…
Many of these reasons laid out in the Declaration are understandable to a certain extent, but are not entirely true. Jefferson mentions that all men are created equal and are endowed with certain unalienable rights including life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I ask you and the Delegates of Maryland, Virginia and the Carolinas how their constituents justify the depriving more than a hundred thousand Africans of their rights to liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and in some degree to their lives if these rights are so unalienable. (Hutchinson 2) If the colonists claim oppression from the British government how can they reasonably oppress slaves? The declaration also states “he has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good”, there are no laws that the colony has been restrained from passing besides those for issuing fraudulent paper currency. (Hutchinson 2) Those living in the colonies have never been a distinct people from the kingdom, and as a result of that the laws of England are and should be laws of its colonies as well. The declaration additionally mentions the grievance that the British has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislatures, but again that is untrue. Great Britain has kept no armies in the colonies without the consent of the supreme legislature. (Hutchinson
Ideologically, as subjects of the British Empire it is illegal and unjust to participate in an armed rebellion against our mother country, and more importantly against our king …show more content…
Many of these reasons laid out in the Declaration are understandable to a certain extent, but are not entirely true. Jefferson mentions that all men are created equal and are endowed with certain unalienable rights including life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I ask you and the Delegates of Maryland, Virginia and the Carolinas how their constituents justify the depriving more than a hundred thousand Africans of their rights to liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and in some degree to their lives if these rights are so unalienable. (Hutchinson 2) If the colonists claim oppression from the British government how can they reasonably oppress slaves? The declaration also states “he has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good”, there are no laws that the colony has been restrained from passing besides those for issuing fraudulent paper currency. (Hutchinson 2) Those living in the colonies have never been a distinct people from the kingdom, and as a result of that the laws of England are and should be laws of its colonies as well. The declaration additionally mentions the grievance that the British has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislatures, but again that is untrue. Great Britain has kept no armies in the colonies without the consent of the supreme legislature. (Hutchinson