Charging the king rather than Parliament made grievances revolutionary

Evidence

The grievances that Jefferson enumerated in the preamble to his draft state constitution echoed those that he raised in his 1774 pamphlet, A Summary View of the Rights of British America, but there he had leveled them mainly against Parliament rather than the king. As such, they were political. Turned against the Crown, they became revolutionary. All of them soon reappeared in Jefferson’s draft Declaration of Independence and from there, with relatively minor modifications, became part of the American nation’s founding document. — Edward J. Larson, Declaring Independence, 204

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s core course theme of how framing legal grievances against different sovereign authorities (Parliament vs. Crown) transforms their political-jurisprudential character. — connects to: Blaming the king rather than Parliament was a revolutionary act — Edward J. Larson, Declaring Independence, 167; Redirecting grievances from Parliament to the king turned political protest revolutionary. — Edward J. Larson, Declaring Independence, 204

Broader Connections

• Blaming the king rather than Parliament was a revolutionary act #corroborates (1.00) — Edward J. Larson, Declaring Independence, 167
• Redirecting grievances from Parliament to the king turned political protest revolutionary. #corroborates (1.00) — Edward J. Larson, Declaring Independence, 204