ned have the right to alter or abolish a government that is unwilling to secure these natural rights, he does assert that such a move should not be made for either ôlightö or ôtransientö causes (1). However, Jefferson (1776) contends that the King of Great Britain is responsible for a ôlong train of abuses and usurpationsö, and that any time the colonies tried to address these actions they were treated to more of the same abuses (1). The goal of the King of Great Britain in orchestrating such abuses, in JeffersonÆs (1776) opinion, has been to erect ôabsolute Tyrannyö over the colonies (1).
The Declaration of Independence presents a list of twenty-seven facts which Jefferson argues are evidence of Great BritainÆs despotism. The King of Great Britain has wrongfully, in the view of the colonies, committed such abuses as taxation without consent, kept standing armies in the colonies in times of peace, has cut off trade with other parts of the world, and has ôabdicatedö government
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