Read the excerpt from the Declaration of Independence. For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and alte
ring fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with Power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. What ideas are associated with the words taking, abolishing, suspending
Armed conflict started in April of 1775 between the American colonists and the soldiers from Britain. When the issue grew into a full-blown revolutionary war by the next summer, the delegates of the continental congress were entrusted with the responsibility of voting on the issue. A five-man committee Thomas Jefferson and John Adams was formed to draft the statement of the intentions the colonies had.
The congress adopted the declaration of independence in 1776 which was mostly written by Jefferson.
