One of his suggestions on this manuscript, states that Parliament had no power whatsoever over the American colonies. Although he accepted in some ways the power of King George the 3rd, he would not allow himself to the powers of the Parliament, in which the colonies had no representation.
James Wilson later joined the Pennsylvania Provincial Conference. This was a meeting of pro-independent states who planned the movement of state militias against the king’s orders. This is said to be the major political movement in the Colonies against King George the 3rd. James Wilson made a passionate speech about the possibility of an ‘’unconstitutional act” made by the king’s Parliament.
In the year of 1775, he was one of the representatives to sign the Declaration of Independence and was present at the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which assembled with the purpose of drafting The Constitution of the United States of America. Here he was a very influential figure, whose ideas where heavily incorporated in one of the most important documents in history. Now both the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence bear his signatures, for all Americans to see it, on either