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Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4th 1776 announced to the World that the Thirteen Colonies were no longer a part of the British Empire.
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What is asserted in the beginning of the declaration of independence?
The first part of the declaration of independence is the basic rights. It is the first of two other parts called, British wrongdoings, and an independent nation. In the basic rights it included that the Americans and all men have rights and stated that the colonies were no longer bound to England, and that governments should get their power from the people, not the king. it also included three part: life. liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
What state did Samuel Adams represent when he signed the Declaration of independence?
Samuel Adams was actually known as Father of the American Revolution. He initiated the Committees on Correspondence that linked the colonies together. He published many articles and was a key catalyst in uniting the colonies.
A great book is "Samuel Adams" by Mark Puls. A remarkable life, and fascinating to read.
Sam Adams is one of the great heroes of the Revolution but few of us were taught that.
What prompted thomas Jefferson to write the Virginia statute of religious freedom?
He was a well educated man, no doubt aware of the history of pain, injustice and persecution heaped upon mankind by the various religions of the world over the century's. any man prompted to act with an ability to see that he is not necessarily always right could not come to any other way of thinking. Read the article on the related link below
(Virigina Statute for Religious Freedom of 1786) for more information on this issue.
What are the three fundamental values on which the Declaration of Independence is based?
There were several principles outlined in the Declaration of Independence. They were that all men are created equal, that all men are born with certain rights. Men have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Men have the right to choose how they're governed, and by whom.
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Where was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights signed?
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What documents are considered forerunners of the US Constitution?
The Mayflower Compact was the first and true forerunner to the written constitution in America. It was also the forerunner to the articles of confederation. the declaration of indepence and the articles of confederation
Was the declaration of independence a turning point in American history?
I wouldn't say it was a turning point. The Battle of Concord in April of 1775 was more a turning point, then there was the battle of Bunker Hill, and the siege of Boston. The Declaration wasn't signed until July 4, 1776 so a great deal had gone on before it. I think of it more as statement of reasons, purpose and facts to tell the world why they wanted to be free of the English crown.
Why did the declaration of independence list the reasons for separation from great britain?
Some of the reasons the American colonies declared their independence from the British empire:
- The colonists were heavily taxed
- Colonists had no say in their own affairs
- Parliament made their laws
In what ways did colonists protest British imperial policies?
Well they threw stones,rocks and many more things to get the colonists hot.
What were the key ideas of the declaration of independence?
A. Having Separate rights from England.
B. To protect natural rights.
Actually it was that the government gets it's powers from the governed, that the government protects our natural rights and that if the government is abusing these powers it needs to be corrected or abolished.
Who was the first president born after the declaration of independence was signed?
Martin Van Buren was the first president born after the declaration of independence on July 4, 1776. He was born born on December 5, 1782 so he was never a British subject unlike the first seven presidents.
John Locke's idea of liberty was a main principle in the US Declaration of Independence and?
the battle cry of the French Revolution.
Novanet answer!Grievances against the British king were named in the American Declaration of Independence?
All of the grievances in the Declaration of Independence are:
- He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
- He has forbidden his Governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
- He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
- He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
- He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
- He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
- He has endeavoured(sic) to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
- He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.
- He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
- He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
- He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislatures.
- He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power.
- He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:
-For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
-For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states:
-For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world:
-For imposing taxes on us without our consent:
-For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:
-For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offences
-For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies:
-For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments:
-For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
- He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.
- He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
- He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat(sic) the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
- He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
- He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured(sic) to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
- In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
What plays a large role in interpreting the bill of rights?
legislative
Another View: WRONG! It is the Judicial Branchwhich interprets the Bill of Rights, an integral part of the US Constitution.
What did Locke consider to be natural rights?
Life, Liberty, and property
property is later changed to the prusuit of happiness
Did the declaration of independence address the rights of all colonists?
The Declaration of Independence actually declared the rights of only men, not women or slaves. The Constitution addressed all colonists rights including women
What are three alienable rights?
An alienable right is a right that can be signed away to someone else, usually a governing body, who can then take it away from you. Alienable rights are different from unalienable, which are inherent to all people and any contract signing them away is invalid. It is just to take away alienable rights that have been contracted away, but always unjust to take away alienable rights.
How could a weak Declaration of Independence have affected the outcome of the revolutionary war?
With a weak Declaration of Independence the colonies would lack the common thread of freedom. In which it would unite a formidable force to repel the opposing British forces.
Who signed the declaration of indepenence first?
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Fifty-six delegates eventually signed the Declaration:
President of Congress 1. John Hancock (Massachusetts)
New Hampshire 2. Josiah Bartlett 3. William Whipple 4. Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts 5. Samuel Adams 6. John Adams 7. Robert Treat Paine 8. Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island 9. Stephen Hopkins 10. William Ellery
Connecticut 11. Roger Sherman 12. Samuel Huntington 13. William Williams 14. Oliver Wolcott
New York 15. William Floyd 16. Philip Livingston 17. Francis Lewis 18. Lewis Morris
New Jersey 19. Richard Stockton 20. John Witherspoon 21. Francis Hopkinson 22. John Hart 23. Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania 24. Robert Morris 25. Benjamin Rush 26. Benjamin Franklin 27. John Morton 28. George Clymer 29. James Smith 30. George Taylor 31. James Wilson 32. George Ross
Delaware 33. George Read 34. Caesar Rodney 35. Thomas McKean
Maryland 36. Samuel Chase 37. William Paca 38. Thomas Stone 39. Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia 40. George Wythe 41. Richard Henry Lee 42. Thomas Jefferson 43. Benjamin Harrison 44. Thomas Nelson, Jr. 45. Francis Lightfoot Lee 46. Carter Braxton
North Carolina 47. William Hooper 48. Joseph Hewes 49. John Penn
South Carolina 50. Edward Rutledge 51. Thomas Heyward, Jr. 52. Thomas Lynch, Jr. 53. Arthur Middleton
Georgia 54. Button Gwinnett 55. Lyman Hall 56. George Walton
What is a constitutional command that Louis M Seidman believes we should keep?
Freedom of speech (apex)
What were the goals of the declaration independence?
One main goal of the Declaration of Independence was to list the grievances of the colonists against King George III. Another main goal was to persuade reluctant colonists to join the rebellion against the King. A third goal was explain the position of the colonists on the purpose of human government.
Who signed their name the biggest on the Declaration of Independece?
John Hancock had the biggest signature on the Declaration of Independence. He wanted it to be big enough for the King of England to be able to read it without his glasses
When a government takes away all of the people's rights of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, people are not allowed to do anything. However they are free to do whatever they want, though perhaps with consequences. Hopefully they will work together to try and free themselves of this oppression.
to prevent the population of the colonies from growing
