Why Was Jamestown Justified In Declaring Independence

1. Looking back on the early history of the United States, one can easily identify the key concepts and reasons that the original colonies had declared independence, and ultimately devised a new form of government. To be able to examine the causes for separation from the nation’s European background, one must first look at to the beginning of the new word. Looking back at the first successful colonies founded in the new world, Jamestown in particular, one can see that most of the new colonists who inhabited Jamestown were extreme separatists. They made the voyage on the Mayflower, seeking separation from the English crown, and the Church of England. The original colonists who were going to live in Jamestown had set up a “social contract”
The leaders of the group felt that this was needed in the new colony to prevent anarchy, (unlike the Roanoke settlement, the men and women of the newly found Jamestown were not under the control of the Virginia Company of London.) While living in the new colonies, the citizens were forced to practice autonomously due to the distance and other logistical issues that arose due to the vast span of ocean that separated the colonies from the mother country. The mother counties taxed the colonies in order to offset the cost of defense incurred during the French and Indian War with lasted from 1756 to 1763. The colonists felt that this tax was not needed, due to many of them seeing themselves fundamentally spate. The first tax imposed was the Sugar Act, which taxed sugar that was imported to North America. Two years after the Sugar Act was in acted, the placed the Stamp Act into effect. This, however, fell into wide disfavor, and through boycotts of European goods, was repealed one year later, causing wide spread unity of all living in the colony. Then, two years later, the British again tried to tax colonial citizens by implementing a tax on all glass, lead, and paint, which not surprisingly, was unpopular the
The tenth federalist paper deals with the idea of groups of people, referred to as fractions. The paper would explain Madison’s view on how factions would propel the needs of each groups. In the paper, Madison explains how humans are self-satisfying, and people would want to have laws and regulations that would meet their own needs. This would create the people to each fall into a fraction, allowing them to be better represented. This would be partially be based on the ideas of Montesquieu, who felt that people must be in either small districts, the fractions, or have direct democracy, which is considered to be impossible. Federalist believed that there should be a strong, central government in order to maintain domestic security and liberty. The federalist wanted the constitution to be ratified. The Anti-Federalists wanted to bar the constitution that was drafted from being ratified. They felt that this gave the government too much power. They argued that the drafters were all part of the colonial Aristocracy, and therefore, could not and would not stand for the common good of the nation, but would instead be overbearing, and hostile to the common people. The federalist paper #10 would show Madison’s views on having a large republic, basing his views mostly on Montesquieu, who felt that liberty was only safe in small districts. The federalist paper #51 was written to explain why Madison felt that the United States government should divide the legislative branch into