It’s a cliché drilled into Americans. Lot of bad history drilled into Americans. Declaration of Independence has fiery rhetoric about the intolerable acts England wants to force on us. When you translate them it speaks of abusing us by asking us to pay for our own defense, stop stealing land from Indians, and freedom of religion for Roman Catholics. (The Puritans didn’t want freedom of religion for everyone. They wanted a freedom of religion that let them hang anyone who disagreed with them. See Mary Dwyer – hanged for the crime of being a Quaker.)
It’s a cliché drilled into Americans. Lot of bad history drilled into Americans. Declaration of Independence has fiery rhetoric about the intolerable acts England wants to force on us. When you translate them it speaks of abusing us by asking us to pay for our own defense, stop stealing land from Indians, and freedom of religion for Roman Catholics. (The Puritans didn’t want freedom of religion for everyone. They wanted a freedom of religion that let them hang anyone who disagreed with them. See Mary Dwyer – hanged for the crime of being a Quaker.)