Declaration of Independence

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The key assertion found in the Declaration of Independence is that all men are created equal. This is intended as an explicit rejection of the aristocratic system prevalent in Europe at the time, which was based upon the belief that some people are born better than others, due to "noble blood". It also includes the belief that men are more important than women. Consequently, the structure of government which emerged after the revolution was a kind of limited democracy, in which all adult male citizens had the vote. The persistence of slavery was an anomaly, certainly not consistent with the assertion that all men are created equal, and that was not really addressed until the Civil War.

He wrote it to send to King George III requesting independence from England.

No colony accepted the Declaration they weren't asked to agree or vote on it. The Declaration was written and then published for the colonies to see and read. The publication took place in July of 1776, but Congress didn't vote on it until October 1776.

John Hancock, President of Congress, signed it on behalf of all. (Also signing, attesting to Hancock's signature, was Charles Thomson, Secretary of the Continental Congress [throughout its entire existence!].) The others waited until August 2 to begin signing the official "engrossed" copy once it was prepared & returned by the printer.

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The clause about slavery was removed from the declaration of independence because the writers wanted all the southern states to support it, along with the northern states. If we included that section, America might not even be a country right now, because only the north would have agreed to sign.

For the religiously inclined, inalienable rights are bestowed by the Creator. For the less religious, we choose to bestow them upon ourselves. The assertion that a right is inalienable only means that we don't think it should ever be violated, it doesn't mean that in reality someone will not violate it. There does not seem to be any cosmic agency that is actively protecting such rights. Citizens of the US, for example, are said by the founding fathers to be endowed by their Creator with the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Yet, people still get murdered, thus depriving them of all three of those things.

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The purpose of the Declaration was to state to the world the crimes of the king and to declare the colonies "free andindependent states". Thomas Jefferson with the help and input of John Adams wrote the Declaration stating the ideas of John Locke. It took him six revisions before it was approved by Congress.

the inflences made a toll on this country it has made us one showing us that we can survie without the British and that we can live as one for as long as this country stands. that everyone is equal no matter the color of there skin. everyone has rights that will be shared thru out this country for ever.

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She believed that it did not go far enough.

Thomas Jefferson is actually the one who wrote the Declaration of Independence. It was written because the colonies felt King George III was abusing them.

John Dickinson (1732-1808) wrote the twelve "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania" in 1767, which protested against the Townshend Acts and encouraged colonial autonomy from England. Ten years later, he was one of the main writers of the Articles of Confederation.

John Hancock was the first on to sign the Declaration of Independence. His signature is also the largest.

First they declared that they were independent by sending the Declaration of Independence to King George. Then when the king didn't agree, they fought the Revolutionary War with the British. When the British decided they weren't making enough progress in the war and the costs were mounting in casualties and money to fight the war, they agreed the colonies were an independent country.

When people break away from their government, they should explain why that government was unfair.

It was the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution. The Constitution has no giant signatures-

The Declaration of Independence does --

and that would be John Hancock -- whose signature is so large in comparison to all the other signatures, that he earned the phrase

"Can I have your John Hancock?"

which is said in reference to asking someone for their signature!

The expression paraphrases one that had been published about a hundred years before. For about 1,000 years, most Europeans lived under the presumption of the Divine Right of Kings, which said that only God could judge the acts of a king - and therefore the people had no right to oppose or overthrow him. By the 1600s this had also become known in England as the Natural Rights of Kings. Englishman John Locke is credited among the first to reject this idea, publishing works espousing the Natural Rights of Man. ("Man" in this sense referred to all of humanity, and collectively to every individual member thereof. It did not refer to males exclusively of females.) In his view, God bestowed certain independent rights on every human being, including life, liberty, and estate - or property - by which he meant the sum total of that person's labor.

These ideas would influence the thinkers of the Enlightenment for more than a century, including Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and the rest of the American Founding Fathers.

The "pursuit of Happiness" is similar to and derived from Locke's right of estate but avoids the pitfall of seeming to promise every citizen a certain acreage of land. As Locke's "estate" meant the result of an individual's labor, Jefferson defined the pursuit of Happiness as any labor that person chooses to undertake. The days of the father's occupation determining the son's were over.

Richard Henry and Francis Lightfoot Lee of Virginia.

the main argument about the declaration of independence is the freedom of religion the voice of the people to matter and the pursuit of happiness

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Virginia Company of London, also known as London Company, founded Virginia. This company was chartered by King James I of England.