1. When you want to break up with someone else, you should tell them why you're doing it.
2. Intended audience / Why write this :
- King George III
- British parliament
- Continental Congress
- In a sense, all of humanity (for Jefferson/other members of Continental Congress must hope that anyone will read it and strive for a just government)
- The colonists (anyone who could read or be read to, copies would be posted up around towns) - -The document also serves to rally the spirits of the Americans, it attempts to justify the reasons for why they're declaring independence
3. - Dramatic, a little whiny
- "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" -- Does this mean King George III was calling meetings in places that no-one could go to, like in England?
- A lot of points about the military and the king sending troops without the colonists' consent
- "He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance" ... "Eat out"? I didn't realize this was a common phrase back then!
- "...the merciless Indian Savages..." - Even here they're awful to the Native Americans. And they capitalize Savages, therefore officially defining them as uncivilized and violent.
2. Intended audience / Why write this :
- King George III
- British parliament
- Continental Congress
- In a sense, all of humanity (for Jefferson/other members of Continental Congress must hope that anyone will read it and strive for a just government)
- The colonists (anyone who could read or be read to, copies would be posted up around towns) - -The document also serves to rally the spirits of the Americans, it attempts to justify the reasons for why they're declaring independence
3. - Dramatic, a little whiny
- "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" -- Does this mean King George III was calling meetings in places that no-one could go to, like in England?
- A lot of points about the military and the king sending troops without the colonists' consent
- "He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance" ... "Eat out"? I didn't realize this was a common phrase back then!
- "...the merciless Indian Savages..." - Even here they're awful to the Native Americans. And they capitalize Savages, therefore officially defining them as uncivilized and violent.
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