Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms

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American Revolutionary War document historical document political manifesto

The Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms was a 1775 document issued by the Second Continental Congress that justified the American colonies’ resort to armed resistance against British rule at the outset of the Revolutionary War.

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Label	Occurrences
Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms canonical	4

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American Revolutionary War document ⓘ historical document ⓘ political manifesto ⓘ
adoptedBy	Second Continental Congress ⓘ
asserts	that the British government had violated colonial rights ⓘ that the colonies did not seek independence at that time ⓘ that the colonies had taken up arms in self-defense ⓘ
audience	UK government ⓘ surface form: British government inhabitants of the Thirteen Colonies ⓘ international observers of the Anglo-American conflict ⓘ
author	John Dickinson ⓘ Thomas Jefferson ⓘ
commissionedBy	Second Continental Congress ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	Thirteen Colonies ⓘ
dateAdopted	1775-07-06 ⓘ
followedBy	American Declaration of Independence ⓘ surface form: United States Declaration of Independence
genre	political declaration ⓘ
historicalPeriod	American Revolutionary era ⓘ surface form: American Revolution American Revolutionary War ⓘ
influenced	revolutionary rhetoric in the American colonies ⓘ
influencedBy	Enlightenment political thought ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
legalForm	resolution of the Second Continental Congress ⓘ
legalStatusAtTime	assertion of loyalty to King George III while resisting Parliament ⓘ
locationOfDrafting	Philadelphia ⓘ
mentionsEvent	Battles of Lexington and Concord ⓘ Boston Tea Party ⓘ Intolerable Acts ⓘ
placeOfAdoption	Philadelphia ⓘ
politicalAlignment	Patriot cause ⓘ
politicalContext	escalation of armed conflict between colonial militias and British forces ⓘ rejection of British attempts to enforce parliamentary supremacy in the colonies ⓘ
precededBy	Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress ⓘ
publisher	Second Continental Congress ⓘ
purpose	to explain the causes of conflict between the American colonies and Great Britain ⓘ to justify the American colonies’ resort to armed resistance against British rule ⓘ to rally colonial support for armed defense of colonial rights ⓘ
relatedDocument	Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress ⓘ American Declaration of Independence ⓘ surface form: Declaration of Independence Olive Branch Petition ⓘ
signedBy	delegates of the Second Continental Congress ⓘ
subject	American colonies–Great Britain relations ⓘ colonial grievances against British policies ⓘ constitutional rights of Englishmen in the colonies ⓘ right of resistance to tyranny ⓘ
title	Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms self-link ⓘ
year	1775 ⓘ

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Second Continental Congress → significantEvent → Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms ⓘ

Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms → title → Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms self-link ⓘ

Declaration of Rights and Grievances (1774) → followedBy → Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms ⓘ

Olive Branch Petition → relatedTo → Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms ⓘ