Declaration of Independence

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I don't think we have. They wanted to set up a system of government where people could participate in government and have their voice heard. Today only about half the people who could vote do. People don't participate. We broke away from England because of the taxes and the monarchy. Today it is big corporations who run our country, and the rich people. There are a few in charge, and the common people don't actually have much power.

The general consensus is that the first permanent English settlement in America was Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607. However, the oldest permanent English settlement in North America is St. John's, NL, Canada, established in 1583 according to records on and from Sir Humphrey Gilbert, making this fact as credible as (or even more so), claims from other, more Ameri-centric, "historians".

The Declaration of Independence was a public proclamation of the desire of the American colonies to be free from English governance, and to be able to govern themselves. It included a detailed and lengthy list of grievances against the government of the colonies, specifically against the king of England. In essence, the D of I says, "We're mad as hell and here's why and we're not going to take it anymore."

Yes. The most obvious one is France, which underwent a revolution of its own against its own king and queen over a ten year period, from 1789 to 1799. During that period, France went from an absolute monarchy to a republic. In 1789 the French National Constituent Assembly used the Declaration of Independence as a guide to drafting its own "Declaration of Rights of Man and of the Citizen." Thomas Jefferson even helped write it while he was in France. The Assembly first wanted to make clear the rights that citizens had prior to writing a formal constitution. As a sidelight, one point made in the Declaration of Rights of Man was a condemnation of the notion of the "divine right of kings." This was a philosophy that Thomas Paine had written about in "Common Sense", which greatly influenced the French people.

Thomas Jefferson wrote Almost the entire first draft.

Benedict Arnold did not sign the Declaration of Independence.

Besides the fact that they were both elected by the people to be President of the United States they have little in common, I think. There were both married, both were Episcopalians, both were college educated and both were raised in families that were comfortable financially. They lived in very different times and faced very different political situations but they probably both agreed on a conservative interpretation of the US Constitution. ( It would much easier to point out their differences, but that is not the question.)

Civil liberties are rights the law gives to citizens, whereas natural rights belong to all humans regardless of what the law says.

There were many benefits for the colonies to establish their own country. Two of the leading factors were taxes and inheritance. Taxation without representation was not something the colonies found economically feasible for them. Also, although the colonies were across the ocean, they had inherited British debt, enemies, laws, and culture. The colonies aimed at establishing an identity of their own.

it says that all people naturally and equally have certain basic rights which come from God, including Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. It says that the most important function of government is to protect these rights. That government has to have the consent of the people being governed and that those people have the right to set up their government in whatever form they think will best protect their rights. That the king of Great Britain and his government were not protecting the colonists rights but were taking them away. It then gives a long list of things the British had done to take away the colonists rights, including taxing them without their consent, closing down the colonial governments and sending the army to govern instead, taking away the right to trial by jury, waging war against the colonies and many other things. It says that because of all of this the colonies had been thrown out on their own and were therefor already independent of Great Britain and since that was the only way they could insure their freedom they were going to stay that way and fight as hard as they needed to to see to it. Compare what I have written here with the actual text of the Declaration (you can find it easily on line or in the Encyclopedia Britannica)and see if what I have said means the same thing as what Jefferson wrote.

According to the book The Boston Campaign, written by Victor Brooks, it was 95 degrees that afternoon. On the third and final charge many of the British shed their red coats.

There were 13 colonies that originally signed the Declaration of Independence. The colonies included Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.

4 July 1776 proclaiming the freedom and independence of thirteen British colonies in North America and announcing the creation of the United States of America.

It isn't reflected in the Declaration. The Declaration is a letter to the king telling why the colonies are declaring independence.

The colonies were providing raw materials and numerous finished goods. Britain needed the lumber, tobacco and other natural resources that were not available on the small islands of Great Britain. They also served as a tax base to help support the other wars Britain was fighting.

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That these rights are given to us by our creator and that they cannot be taken away because they are given to us by said creator.

This answer once equated "creator" with "God" but this was not accurate.

The King Of England (by then the King Of Great Britain) was George III.

A founder of the Untied States. John Hancock was one of the 55 signers of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. His signature is the biggest so many will refer to dramatically signing a document as signing your Hancock, referencing the Declaration of Independence.

Both list wrongs that had been done to people

He signed the Decleration of Independence.

Because it sets the foundation for our entire government and made everyone equal.

to become free and independent states

Second Continental Congress http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Continental_Congress