Declaration of Independence

The Declaration of Independence was difficult because many people did not agree with it. It was meaningful because it declared independence from Britain.

yeah when Ben Franklin(virgin) was signing the d.o.c. he flipped it on the back and wrote a map to where you could find millions of dollars in gold, Treasure, and ancient artifacts the most important a purple on the outside and gold on the inside PIMPMOBILE. P.S. IT is written in invisible ink so watch out you might have to steal it to deciphere it. Then the PO-PO will be after you so you better go get your gat and your sisters 9 and get outa there.

On the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Calvin Coolidge gave a speech that directly seeks to answer this question. He provided numerous historical examples to defend his opinion.

In brief, he agreed that previous nations had declared the right of people to govern themselves, and previous political philosophers had made some of the same assertions that exist in the Declaration of Independence. However, he said, the United States was the first country to be founded on the three principles of universal equality, natural rights, and self-government, and to base its institutions and efforts for reform upon these principles.

This is it.

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 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 benefit 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 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 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.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

Friedrich von Steuben

Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence to declare freedom from Great Britain.

The Declaration of Independence stated that United States citizens have the right to independence from Britain.

It is conclusion -Apex

He signed it. He had a larger part in the writing of the constitution and took all the notes.

Declare, Necessary, One people

Facts

What is the importance of the declaration?

I have never read anything concerning a time frame about the signing. Just from the written thoughts and descriptions my guess would be 20-30 minuted. Ben Franklin may have held things up a bit because he did like to point out the importance of events. It is reported he said, as he signed, "we need to hang together or we will hang separately." He was right. The king considered them traitors.

While it's immediate target was George III and the British Parliament, the declaration had a secondary purpose. Jefferson stated that in writing the Declaration he "wished to place the facts before the world in terms so clear and direct as to command their assent."

Jefferson didn't want to depend too much on industry or manufacturing. He believed that farmers were the "most independent" voters in the US because they didn't depend on anyone else to earn their living. He thought our government would be "virtuous" as long as it was primarily agricultural. Jefferson wanted to help the farmers. He thought low tariffs would help keep prices of the goods the farmers needed low.

Sombody Phd out there must have some idea about what happened to the men that signed the Declaration on Inependence. This would a great research project for a serious history student. I do not have the means or the ability to pursue a project like this, but I'd sure like to know the answer to this question. The truth in this invistigation might make a great movie. The truth, well nothing happened. They all continued to live normal lives. None were hanged or tortured to death. None were shot by the British. Not sounding like a great movie. In high school, you were taught that the men were risking their lives but were not really. The British were not going to waste time finding the men. The End. Begin Credits.

John Hancock! He's the one who signed really huge!

Button Gwinnett was a delegate from Georgia to the Second Continental Congress, which debated and adopted the Declaration of Independence. He signed it, because the legislature in Georgia was in favor of declaring independence and he was authorized to sig it to show Georgia's agreement with the claim that America was free of British rule.

It is the people who are declared to hold the inherent political power and as such control the government. The Declaration of Independence makes no distinctions of citizenship but declares that all people are free and capable of self government and have to right to life, liberty and the pursuit happiness. Yeah baby!

he uses parallelism to create a strong rhythm and memorable ideas.

56 colonists signed the Declaration of Independence.

John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry, Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton, William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn, Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyword, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Arthur Middleton, Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll, George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton, Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross, Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean, William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris, Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark, Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton, Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery, Rober Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, and Oliver Wolcott.

New York City was the only major city held by the British throughout the Revolutionary War.

The British held Boston at the beginning of the war, but withdrew in March of 1776; they captured New York in September. The British captured Newport, Rhode Island, in 1776 but left in 1779, to concentrate their forces in New York. The French took over Newport and used it as their base of operations for the rest of the war. That prompted the British to withdraw from Philadelphia, which they had captured in 1777, to further reinforce their stronghold in New York.

😌It was completed on June 28,1776 I believe...it was ratified (approved) by the house on July 4,1776.Hope the answer helped and thanks a TON for giving me the honor of answering this question.😃

If one means the formal pronouncement by the Continental Congress that the colonies are independent, then it is July 2, 1776, when a voice vote was taken on declaring independence. If one means the document itself, then it would be July 4, 1776, when the written document was approved by all delegates and John Hancock and Charles Thomson signed it to authenticate it as a pronouncement of the Congress so it could be printed and distributed to the states and armies. The copy with the 56 signers names did nothing to alter or confirm either the July 2 vote or the July 4 adoption of the document.

England, a country that was a part of Great Britain.