The Break Up Between England and the Americans

The Declaration of Independence, the most famous break up letter of all time! It’s kinda funny really. The resemblance between the Declaration and a break up letter. Both involve someone or many people leaving something, like a country (England) and they both involve something that has to do with betrayal.

The preamble of the Declaration of Independence, which explains that the Americans have the right to be treated well in their relationship with King George. The preamble also relates Enlightenment philosophy to the American colonists' situation in many ways. Some ways it relates to Enlightenment philosophy is when it mentions "...are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights..", it is referring to natural rights which are rights that are not contingent upon the laws, customs, or beliefs of any particular culture or government, and therefore universal and inalienable. 

A grievance is a real or imagined wrong or other cause for complaint or protest, especially unfair treatment, something that the Declaration has a lot of. The colonists included them in the Declaration because they weren't getting treated well by the King. Like a break up, the put in the things that the king did that wasn't very nice. “Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us” He made the colonists house his soldiers when they really didn't want to but yet he didn't care at all. "He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance..." He refused to let any of the governors pass laws that were important to the people which isn't really good. People need those laws. If they didn't have them then all hell would break loose. All these grievances pointed out the bad side of the King, how he wasn't nice to the Americans in anyway. He put Acts on them and everything. But the Declaration ended it all.

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