explain the specific reasons and the general principles in the declaration of independence?

Question

to the american separation.

Answer 1

Merchantilism and not having a say in how their tax money was spent.

Mechantilism was the idea that England would make money (gold) by sending expensive finished products out of the country and importing either gold or raw materials to make products to export. This meant that the colonies would always be poorer than England. Any industries (other than the harvesting of raw materials) would be taxed too heavily to do export business.

The taxation thing was more slogan than reality. A British islander paid more than twenty times the tax a British colonial would. They were just mad that they had to pay taxes at all, and not have a say in parliament--who decided how the money gets spent.

Another reason was opportunity--the opportunity to quit the merchantile system, and the opportunity to try democracy without a crown--something that had been talked about by scholars but hadn't been tried in more than a millennium. The American Separation was not a revolution like the french revolution, because the people in power at the start of it were still in power at the end of it--they just didn't have to worry about the British crown and could make their own rules when it was over.

Answer 2

unfair taxation, prejudice against colonials and their needs not being met by the british government.