Why did it take so long for the colonists to announce a declaration of war against the british?

what are the options mate?

explanation:

not to be rude or anything but, nobody can really answer that if you don't add the options sorry if it came of rude uwu

polisit can also mean a body of citizens. in modern historiography, polis is normally used to indicate the ancient greek city-states, like classical athens and its contemporaries, and thus is often translated as "city-state". the body of citizens came to be the most important meaning of the term polis in ancient greece.