Quiz - Lesson 7: The Declaration of Independence

No. That would have been treason.

Yes, and it was treason.

Yes, and it was not treason because each colony, and the states they later became were, as the Treaty of Paris concedes, “free, sovereign, and independent.” Thus each colony had the sovereign right to leave the empire and govern themselves.

No. To declare independence from a political order so that a people can exercise their sovereign right of self-determination is simply a declaration of independence. Secession is something else altogether.

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Quiz – Lesson 7: The Declaration of Independence

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