2007-02-27 06:38:13 · 5 answers · asked by melissa b 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
freedom and liberation for the tyrannical rule by england.
2007-02-27 06:51:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It signifies that we (USA) declared Independence from English rule
2007-02-27 14:44:35 · answer #2 · answered by Clarkie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would encourage people to read the US Declaration of Independence-here's some of it:
Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let the Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
There's much more. Please read.
2007-02-27 14:52:28 · answer #3 · answered by Middleclassandnotquiet 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That the original US Colonies have declared that they will no longer be subject to British rule.
2007-02-27 14:41:23 · answer #4 · answered by meathookcook 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It made public certain colonists' desire to break with England, and why. The document itself carries no legal weight.
2007-02-27 14:43:14 · answer #5 · answered by dussin23 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋