This was our founding document-- it let the British know we wanted to be a free country, rather than a colony of England. By declaring our independence, we gave birth to a new nation: the United States.
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The Declaration of Independence asserts that the rights of men are theirs from birth.
The Declaration of Independence is broken up by parts. There's three parts. 1. Stresses the idea of natural rights, or rights that belong to all people from birth. 2. lists wrongs that led the Americans to break away from Britain. 3. announces that the colonies are the United States of America.
Some of the effects of the Declaration of Independence are the birth of a more democratic form of government. It also proposed the idea that people were free to live without threat of tyranny. This idea inspired the world, and still does to this day.
Not really. The declaration talked about who had a right to govern. It did not dispute the need for government, but justified the right to be independent of the rule of the English king and the right of the people to choose their government. It attacked the idea that people like King George had to right to rule because of their royal birth.
It is called "birthright" when one acquires citizenship based on their place of birth.