If you were a colonist alive at the time, would you sign the Declaration of Independence? Why or why not?

Explanation:

It's easy to say "yeah sure. It's a good thing to do."

But remember to sigh it, was to commit treason and the law was enforced towards the end. I don't have that kind of courage or commitment. I don't think I'd like to face my neighbors either, who would most likely be "pro-waking George up" to the price of tyranny. I'd likely do what many loyalists did and that would be to flee to British held Canada.

they sometimes resort to unethical tactics.

worcester v. georgia, legal case in which the u.s. supreme court on march 3, 1832, held (5–1) that the states did not have the right to impose regulations on native american land. andrew jackson refused to enforce the ruling, the decision form the basis for most subsequent indian law in the united states.