These Are Our Reasons for Independence

From the July 4, 2013, Northwest (McHenry County, Il) Herald by Thomas Jefferson et all.

Here is a list of some of the things we're unhappy about and why we chose to do what we did.

"He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us."

And, the list goes on and on and even had quite a few reasons before these few I listed.

Of course, most will remember the opening words a bit better.  They went:  "When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another..."

In Other Words, Our Declaration of Independence.