The colonies have endured 27 on the hands of the King. Every one of this maltreatment has been aimed at the provinces to build up an overbearing government in North America. Jefferson guarantees that the homesteaders have persistently endured this maltreatment and that it is presently time to open this maltreatment to the countries of the world.
The rundown of misuses mirrors the homesteaders' conviction that their privileges as British Citizens had been gradually disintegrated as far back as the French and Indian War finished in 1763.