'Transporting us beyond the seas.' How the fear of being sent to Britain for trial sparked the American Revolution

'Transporting us beyond the seas.' How the fear of being sent to Britain for trial sparked the American Revolution

When Thomas Jefferson sat down to pen the Declaration of Independence, he was under instructions to do two things: provide the flowery philosophical reasons for a break with the king and include a list of particular grievances against the monarch.By the time he and his editors at the Continental Congress were done, there were 27 such grievances in the document. Lately, I’ve seen four of those grievances making the rounds on social media, circula…