Declaration of Independence

The core idea comes from John Locke and it is that man has been given natural rights by God and that governments are formed to protect these rights. When a government no longer protects the rights that man has the right to change the government.

The "fairly engrossed" (i.e. neatly written) official copy with the signatures of 56 representatives of the 13 colonies which ratified it, and whose general appearance is familiar to most Americans, was handwritten with a feather quill pen by clerk Timothy Matlack primarily in a style of lettering we now call copperplate or roundhand, with the first line in a simple Roman style, and the second line and some additional words in a style called blackletter. The first mechanically-printed copies of the Declaration, 200 of which were printed the night of July 4-5, 1776 by John Dunlap and now known as the "Dunlap Broadsides", at least 26 of which still exist, were printed in a typeface called Caslon, which is still popular today.

There are several computer fonts available for replicating the general style of the fairly engrossed Declaration. These include AL Patriot, American Scribe, National Archive, P22 Declaration Script, P22 Declaration Alternate, P22 Declaration Blackletter, US Declaration and vLetter Declaration. Beware that if you want to exactly duplicate the Declaration, only American Scribe and National Archive include the obsolete character known as the "long s", which appears several times in the Declaration.

For replicating the look of the Dunlap Broadsides, there are many official versions of Caslon and many Caslon look-alike fonts available.

Yes, he did. It was the Constitution that he did NOT sign.

"He has"

The Declaration of Independence is the document that declared our freedom from the crown, and stated the we were separating from Great Britain and creating our own country. This created a need for a document to guide this new country. The Articles of Confederation preceded The Constitution, but gave so much power to the individual states that it became as if we were actually 13 separate countries, each colony having their own currency, laws, taxes, etc. This created the need for a more centralized federal government and from this need our Constitution was born and adopted on September 17, 1787. At 225 years old it is the oldest document that governs a nation to this day.

In the Declaration of Independence, the colonists listed several reasons for separation from England. One reason is that the British king and parliament had enacted taxes on the colonists without their consent as the colonists had no representatives in the British Parliament. Another reason is that the British government had sent British soldiers to the colonies, where they were expected to be fed and housed by the colonists. A third reason is that the colonists were given 'mock' trials oftentimes without a jury. A fourth reason is that the coloniesÕ representative houses were often dissolved by the British king. A fifth reason is that the coloniesÕ grievances have been repeatedly ignored by the British king.

John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman

Yes it does. I say this because of the text in the Constitution. It talks about how states wanted more freedom, so there you have it.

By the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1783, Great Britain recognized American independence. The British ceded to the new nation all of Britain's claims eastward from the Mississippi to the American east coast.

The 'Declaration of Independence'
Declaration of Independence

Its a statement against tyrannical control by the King of England, who claimed ownership of the colonies. That is a little simplified. Actually there was a long drawn out separation between the colonies in the British King, which started with letters of appeasement and then outright lies and control and finally war.

The same thing occurred in the 1860s when the American Federal Government overthrew the several sovereign States, and its well on its pathway of reoccurring today.

The Declaration of Independence is the first law of the land in the United States and is very important as it provides to the people of the United States, the authority to throw off their government should it become tyrannical. The 2nd Amendment to the US constitution, relating to the ownership of arms, finds it authority and purpose in the Declaration of independence.

Reading the Constitution, one will note that the mustering of the US military, and authority over the military officers (selection of officers etc), is a power belonging to the several states and not the federal government. This is actually what the battle of the 1860s was fought over, not slavery. The federal government wanted total control over the military and removed the balance of power from the several states.... by force!

The Declaration of Independence says Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; they have a right to throw gov't. - See more at: http://www.chacha.com/question/what-does-jefferson-claim-the-colonists-have-done-every-time-their-rights-have-been-repressed-or-taken-away,-in-the-declaration-of-independence#sthash.AOFVxKQA.dpuf

He did not want to be remembered as one of the people in the Continental Congress who did not sign the Declaration and prevent our independence. He would have prevented our independence because the other 12 states agreed on independence, and all 13 had to agree, so it was down to Pennsylvania and it was split in half so Wilson had the last vote and he voted for independence.

The Declaration of Independence was an open letter to the king and without it we may not have left the British government. Not that many colonists were upset with the king and many didn't care. They only got involved when something happened that upset them. Many stayed neutral the entire war. Washington had problems getting enough men enlisted.

The authors of the Declaration of Independence argued against taxation without representation and for religious freedom.

july 4th, 1776

On July 4, 1776, the American colonies released the Declaration of Independence. The document, one of the most radical for its time, sought to justify why the American colonies could no longer be ruled by Great Britain.

As the Declaration of Independence states:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"

He supported a government with natural right, and treated everone equal with no harm or stresss. He view was followed by the English people, tahn later on that's wahy they excuted Charles The first.

Most people who lived in Pennsylvania in colonial times were from England, looking to find a new, better life. The reason they came to the 13 colonies was because of religious reasons, mostly.

By including the word "necessary" in the first paragraph.

By creating laws that made acquiring land difficult. ACTAUL ANSWER*