Paraguay gained independence from Spain in May 1811, without a shot being fired. The Paraguayan conspirators surrounded the governor's palace with cannons, then knocked on the door and demanded independence. The governor granted their request without argument.
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The Declaration of Independence was an importment statement because it was set our freedom from the English.
The Declaration of Independence told the world that they were a free country. It told Britain that they were no longer under the King of Britain and that they no longer had to follow the British laws.
Taxation without representation was the European theory that was rejected by the writing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. The reason for the Revolutionary War was taxation without representation.
the Declaration of Independence.
The British colonists in America before the War of Independence (no taxation without representation /in the British Parliament/).