Oliver Branch Petition

The Olive Branch Petition was a document written to send to the King of England to assert the rights of the colonists. While doing this, they suck up to the King which could have been taken offensively. Multiple times throughout the document, they refer to themselves as "faithful subjects." The colonists are basically asking for peace and to become more independent. They also say a few times that in the long run it will help both the colonists and Britain. They are arguing that they are being treated like children and they don't like the taxes being thrust upon them. The colonists blame the soldiers for everything that had happened between them and Britain. Also, at one point, they even bring up God in the argument. They colonists hit every point they could to appeal to the king and get their argument across. If I was the King and read this, I think I definitely would take it into offense. This is because the colonists think that I would really give into their demands because they called themselves faithful and sucked up to me. If they thought I was that dumb I would obviously never let them have anything they wanted and argued for in the document. I think this document is not very important because it did not change anything and the king never read it. The only important thing I found in the document was that the colonists called themselves still loyal to the king after all that he had done to them.