Tired of Taxes- the real story behind 1776 "All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable oppression, civil or religious, to leave the society they belong to, and enter into another."# Many people believe that the causes of the American Revolution were rooted in their opposition to taxes; however, this is most certainly not true. Many small things accumulatively caused the American …
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…important quotes in history: 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 caused which impel them to the Separation."#