The Declaration of Independence is considered one of the best written documents in history because in a few short sentences it separated the colonies from Great Britain and then became the basis for the Constitution.The Declaration of Independence offered King George and Parliament a list of grievances from the colonists and each of those grievances focused on exhorbitant taxes.Because the colonists were impoverished, the idea of "taxation without representation" was the sole focus of their desire to be independent from Great Britain.The long list of items in the Declaration of Independence included Great Britain's restrictions on self-governance, including denying the colonists desire to tax slavery.

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