Document I Source: Thomas Jefferson, A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774) To remind him (His Majesty) that our ancestors, before their emi- gration to America, were the free inhabitants of the British domi- nations in Europe, and possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them; of going in quest of new habitations, and of there establishing new societies, under such laws and regulations as in them shall seem most likely to promote public happiness.

Document I Source: Thomas Jefferson, A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774) To remind him (His Majesty) that our ancestors, before their emi- gration to America, were the free inhabitants of the British domi- nations in Europe, and possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them; of going in quest of new habitations, and of there establishing new societies, under such laws and regulations as in them shall seem most likely to promote public happiness.