"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."
1) Declared himself invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
2) Erected a multitude of New Offices to harass our people and eat out their substance.
3) Subjected us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws
4) Taking away our Constitution and altering fundamentally the form of our Government



