Appeals to shared justice and kinship fail when the audience ignores them.

Evidence

Nor have we been wanting in our 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. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity; and we have conjured them, by the ties of our common kindred, to disavow these usurpations which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too, have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. — Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence, 39

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘unwarrantable jurisdiction’ language reinforces the Declaration’s recurring jurisprudential objection to governance without consent — useful for the course’s legal-thought tradition.