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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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According to Jefferson what is the purpose of a government?
To secure citizens freedoms of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Who printed the first copy of the Declaration of independance?
Benjamin Towne, a Philadelphia printer located "in Front-street, near the London Coffee-House," was the first to print the Declaration in a newspaper. source: http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/journey/declaration-transcript.html
What town was the constitution and declaration of independence was written?
The Declaration Of Independence was written and approved in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Did Thomas Jefferson have a family?
Yes, Jefferson had a family. He had six children with his wife Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson. She died giving birth to their sixth child. There is wide speculation that Jefferson had children with one of his slaves, Sally Hemings. DNA evidence published in 1998 has convinced many historians that at least one of Sally's children, if not all six, were Jefferson's.
Who wrote declarationof independence?
The Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson. It is said that much of the content was borrowed from the Constitution of Virginia. The declaration was a dangerous document for the colonial leaders to sign inasmuch it was treason against the British Crown and punishable by death.
What events directly led to the writing of the Declaration of Independence?
This summary is taken from Jefferson's Declaration of Independence: Origins, Philosophy, and Theology
Christopher M Duncan. Perspectives on Political Science. Washington: Winter 1999. Vol. 28, Iss. 1; pg. 56, 1 pgs
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Bill Crawley
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Illinois Central College Jayne, Allen Jefferson's Declaration of Independence: Origins, Philosophy, and Theology Lexington: University Press of Kentucky 245 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8131-2017-9 Publication Date: February 1998 In this book Allen Jayne, a Cambridge-- trained Ph.D., focuses his considerable historical and analytic skills on the mind of Thomas Jefferson. The result is a meticulously researched, cogently argued view of Jefferson that should force most readers to reconsider their understanding of him. It is a work fit for scholars, useful for the classroom, and of potential interest to other serious readers of American history and political thought. Jayne brings coherence to the thought of an often eclectic Jefferson. He explains that his contribution is original because it demonstrates "that a succinctly stated heterodox theology is institutionalized in the Declaration as a primary truth and necessary corollary of its political theory" (7). Through a comprehensive survey of Jefferson's reading habits and through painstaking close readings both of Jefferson and of works that Jefferson read, Jayne renders a compelling picture of a great mind at war with tyranny in all its manifestations. Jayne's Jefferson builds his intellectual house on a diverse foundation by drawing from the wisdom of Bolingbroke, Locke, Henry Home, Lord Kames, and Thomas Reid. The result is a Jefferson who deftly and concurrently embraced deism. the primacy of reason, egalitarianism, liberal individualism, democracy, and the commonsense moral philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment. The enemy of Jayne's Jefferson is "authority." Jefferson himself made this plain when he wrote: '"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction, is the last degradation of a free moral agent" (166). Subsequently, Jefferson endorsed a system of political ideals and institutional structures, such as the Bill of Rights, that would maintain the necessary intellectual and political space for the free practice of that cherished agency. While Jefferson apparently worried about the solipsistic dangers of such a world view, his faith in "the essential goodness of man; and a belief in man's perfectability through rational humanitarian means" (165) allowed him to forge confidently ahead. As Jayne understands Jefferson. he was utterly opposed to the "antiegalitarian. antidemocratic, implications of Judeo-Christian orthodoxy in the colonies at the time of the American Revolution" (9). He rejected the doctrine of original sin because politically it implied rule by either the morally tainted or an oppressive Leviathan (171). Both alternatives seemed too cruel and unreasonable to have been perpetrated by "Nature's God." Ironically, however, most Americans of the day disagreed with Jefferson on this point. For them C. S. Lewis's later observation (that he was a democrat because he believed in the fall of man) would have been more apropos. Hence, oddly, one of the central documents of the American founding period was based on theological and philosophical views foreign to the typical citizen. Furthermore, it remains foreign; Jefferson's prediction that "there is not a young man now living in the United States who will not die a Unitarian" (166) did not come to pass. If there is a serious weakness in Allen Jayne's fine book, it is his failure to expound on the implications of his own findings. Jayne brings Jefferson's thought closer to us but fails to acknowledge that in doing so he has propelled us farther from Jefferson
What 18th century philosphical movement influenced the language of the declaration of independence?
The English philosophers John Locke, Rousseau, and Montesquieu.
Did Paul Revere sign the Declaration of Independence?
No, Paul Revere was a man who was hired by a doctor to warn the country side that "The British were coming!" He was also helped by two men which got no recogntion because there was a poem abotu Paul Revere and the two men were not in it. No, Paul Revere was a man who was hired by a doctor to warn the country side that "The British were coming!" He was also helped by two men which got no recogntion because there was a poem abotu Paul Revere and the two men were not in it. THANKS IT HELPED ALOT!!
If you had to write the Declaration of Independence in 1776 what would you include?
There are many things I would write in the Declaration of Independence. One thing that pops into my mind would be that future presidents are not able to change or modify anything in this declaration.
What The declaration of independence says all men are created equal endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights.'' what does this mean?
Britain colonized Hong Kong around 1841. This is during the Opium Wars. Britain won this conflict and the Treaty of Nanking was the result.
Who discovered the inalienable rights?
The U.S. Declaration of Independence 1776 wrote that every person had unalienable rights which were life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. So the writers of the Declaration of Independence were the ones who discovered this unalienable, but they mainly this idea was from John Locke who believe in natural rights which were life, liberty, and protection of property! I would say they writers of the Declaration of Independence got it from John Locke.
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What are the accomplishments of the declaration of Independence?
The Declaration of Independence, adopted on July 4, 1776, accomplished several significant milestones. It formally declared the American colonies' separation from British rule, articulating the principles of individual liberty and government by consent of the governed. The document inspired global movements for democracy and human rights, establishing foundational ideas that influenced future democratic societies. Additionally, it united the colonies in a common cause, fostering a sense of American identity and purpose.
How did the declaration of independence show the feelings of the patriot leaders?
it inspired people to sign it.
"to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,-That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government." Ever since their creation, these ideas have guided the development of U.S. government, including the creation of the U.S. Constitution in 1787. The concepts of equal and inalienable rights for all, limited government, popular consent, and freedom to rebel have had a lasting effect on U.S. law and politics.
Why did they think it was important to sign the declaration of independence?
In order to show the support the colonies had for what was written on the document.
all of the signatures where from all 13 colonies if they didn't sign it they would not of been a free country
Cause they just are
Who was the man that wrote the Declaration of Independence of independence?
The declaration was not created by one single man, but Thomas Jefferson is credited for being its author.
