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Can someone please evaluate the accusations made against King George 3rd in the declaration of Independence?

i know this is a complex question which might take some time to answer but it would really help me out a lot…jsut look at the second section of the declaration which blames King George for a lot of things and using historical information and facts say if some of these accusations were either true or false

~Actually no, it is not all that difficult or complex, but if you think someone is going to go through them one by one and address each, you must be out of your mind. Have you read the pertinent sections? If so, you should know the answer. Then, too, you have to decide from what prospective the answer should be given? The answer from the homeland British is apt to be different from that of the rebellious colonials who supported independence (about 1/3) or from that of the loyalist colonials who remained faithful to the rightful government (about 1/3) or from that of the colonials who never really took a stand one way or the other (about 1/3) or from the colonials in the Canadian and West Indies colonies who were subject to similar rules and reasonably content with the status quo. Ask yourself:

What was the power of the King and Parliament over the colonies in 1776?

Were not the colonies British territories, subject to British law and British rule?

What was the nature of taxation in, say, Liverpool at the time and what was the nature of representation of the citizens of Liverpool in Parliament? Does that contrast in any way with a citizen of Boston?

Weren’t the oppressive taxes actually lower than the ones they replaced and weren’t they imposed because the homeland British were all but bankrupt from the cost of the Seven Years War (including the North American component, the French and Indian War)? Weren’t the new and reduced taxes imposed to collect the colonial share of that cost, the colonials having reaped the benefit, and wasn’t the real problem the fact that the taxes were being collected for once, the former policy of the government having been to look the other way when the colonials refused to pay or to otherwise ignore their rightful obligations to the government?

Given that the colonists relied on, and demanded, British military protection, did it make sense for Parliament and the Crown to restrict growth of the colonies to an area wherein that protection could be provided?

Under British law, how were judges appointed?

Which was the supreme law of the land, the Crown and Parliament or the colonial legislatures and under what authority did the colonial legislatures exist?

By what authority did a colonial propose to be authorized to grant British citizenship to anyone, whether or not if in compliance with British law?

Were not the British troops the only legally authorized troops in the colonies and what would have been the consequence if they were withdrawn and the Spanish chose to move into Georgia from Florida or the French into Virginia from there lands to the west? But for the British troops, how were colonial borders to be secured and did not the Crown and Parliament have the right to secure their own colonies?

Weren’t the trade rules imposed for the benefit and well being of ALL British subjects, including the colonials?

Of what possible concern to a resident of North Carolina what Parliament did to preserve the integrity of Quebec as a British colony after acquiring it from the French and why would someone from Rhode Island think he had any claim to lands around Detroit?

You could take the easy way out and say that the Declaration of Independence was a meaningless and redundant document because independence was actually declared on July 2, 1776, with the ratification of the Lee Resolution which simply said, in its entirety:

Resolved, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.

That it is expedient forthwith to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign Alliances.

That a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted to the respective Colonies for their consideration and approbation.

Dover – King George

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