The Declaration of Independence was the first formal statement by a nation’s people asserting their <em><u>right to choose their own government</u></em>. When armed conflict between bands of American colonists and British soldiers began in April 1775, the Americans were ostensibly fighting only for their rights as subjects of the British crown.
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