{"id":3125,"date":"2018-07-08T23:35:53","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T05:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cruithni.wordpress.com\/?p=3125"},"modified":"2018-07-08T23:35:53","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T05:35:53","slug":"july-4-1776-the-declaration-of-independence-annotated-updated-bookworm-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=3125","title":{"rendered":"July 4, 1776: The Declaration of Independence Annotated (Updated) &#8211; Bookworm Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookwormroom.com\/2018\/07\/04\/july-4-1776-declaration-independence\/#more-57030\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cruithni.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/1-signing-of-declaration.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>[Britain attempted to do this on more than one occasion in colonial history, but by 1776, this indictment probably only referred to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Massachusetts_Government_Act\">Massachusetts Government Act<\/a>, also a part of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Intolerable_Acts\">Intolerable Acts<\/a>. By this law, the King unilaterally abrogated the charter governing the colony, in all but name did away with representative democracy, going so far as to outlaw town meetings not pre-approved. This was a clear warning to all of the other colonies that they needed to submit to British demands or Britain would impose martial law upon them. The colonists chose a third option.]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookwormroom.com\/2018\/07\/04\/july-4-1776-declaration-independence\/\">July 4, 1776: The Declaration of Independence Annotated (Updated) &#8211; Bookworm Room<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: [Britain attempted to do this on more than one occasion in colonial history, but by 1776, this indictment probably only referred to the\u00a0Massachusetts Government Act, also a part of the\u00a0Intolerable Acts. By this law, the King unilaterally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=3125\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">July 4, 1776: The Declaration of Independence Annotated (Updated) &#8211; Bookworm Room<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}