Perplexity

Why do we Americans seem to blame others for our misfortunes? We have done it since the start of our country. On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was signed by the Founding Brothers of the United States of America. They signed to remove themselves from the King and depart on there own, with their new idea of a government.
Notice how in the Declareation of Independence it states that "...the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States..." This shows how the colonists blamed just one man for the "repeated injuries and usurpations."
Why just one man? Why not blame the country? Instead, Thomas Jefferson wrote that the King was "A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." Thus, saying that he was not ready to be a ruler of the people who want him to "...Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good..."

A ruler who wanted what was best him and not for the people was not who they wanted to rule America. The most perplexing thing about the Declaration of Independence is how they stated that "Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us... They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends." Even though they state that their brittish brethren have unwarrantable jurisdiction or unwanted authority over the colonists. They refered to their "enemy in war" as their brethren. Why? We declared war on them, yet we call them our brothers? Was this to make all the people of the war seem to be innocent and the King seem evil? This may have been a great way to persuade the people or it could have been one that slowed the revolution down. This is perplexity, in the sense that we are uncertain of what was really meant by this. Maybe the colonist blamed the whole country. Maybe they really dud think it was the King. Either way, they were able to stray from the Brittish and establish a well working government. We succeeded in are Independence, but failed to point the gun at the people but only at the King. The question is why...


----The following video is narrated by Robin Shields on the Library of Congress website.---
About The Video:
"Robin Shields discusses the American Declaration of Independence, focusing on its distribution through early American newspapers. Fifteen newspapers containing the Declaration from the Library of Congress' Serial and Government Publication Division's American newspaper collection are profiled. Shields highlights the importance of newspapers for the success of the American Revolution and the influence newspaper printers had on the independence movement."(Library of Congress)

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