Why did the Second Continental Congress declare independence from England?

The colonists wanted not to be ruled by a king and his Parliament who were across the ocean. They also thought they should be allowed to make their own laws because they never got to vote in Parliament and the British Parliament never asked if the law was ok. The colonists wanted not to be ruled by a king and his Parliament who were across the ocean. They also thought they should be allowed to make their own laws because they never got to vote in Parliament and the British Parliament never asked if the law was ok.