Declaration Of IndependenceEssay Preview: Declaration Of IndependenceReport this essayOne of the most important pieces of American writing is the Declaration of Independence. It seems critical for all American citizens to know the meaning of this Declaration and its history. Over the past couple of weeks, I have learned a good amount of information on the Declaration of Independence. I have learned the essential facts on this Declaration and also, its influential purpose.
On July 2, 1776, the colonies voted for independence (except for New York which abstained). But the Declaration of Independence was completed and signed on July 4, 1776, and was then adopted by the Second Continental Congress. It was put together mainly by Thomas Jefferson, with the help of Benjamin Franklin and John Adams. This Declaration marked the official separation between the 13 colonies and Great Britain. The formal declaration of independence established the new American revolutionary government and officially declared war against Great Britain. The primary purpose of the declaration was to assist the Second Continental Congress in obtaining aid form foreign countries. It also outlines the history of abuses the colonists had suffered under British rule since the end of the French and Indian War in 1763.
The beginning of the Declaration opens up with a preamble, stating why the colonies have overthrown their ruler and chosen to be a separate nation in the world. It also describes that the people should establish a government that is designed to protect the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Governments are rarely overthrown, but it was a long history of abuses that led the colonists to overthrow the government. The King of Great Britain, George III, was guilty of 27 abuses, and interfered with the colonists right to self-government. The colonial governments tried to reach peaceful reconciliations, but were just continually ignored. So in a way, they had no choice but to declare independence from Great Britain.
The colonists, and later the people of the United States and the rest of the Western Union at the founding, saw their own future in their new home. They knew that it would be a better place than it is today, where they were free and secure to live and to work freely within their own borders. The colonists did not see their own future in the United States as “extremist.” Instead they saw all their future in the United States and were proud of the fact that they themselves, rather than the citizens, had never been subjected to the tyranny or injustice that comes with enslaving other nations or subjecting their people to forced labor or exploitation.
They also understood that if the United States needed to continue to prosper and prosper, the United States, along with their friends from the European Union, the European Union Union, and even the European Union itself, would be better equipped to do so because of the freedom and the people.
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In a World that is filled with many wars and great wealth, it was only natural that in this moment in time, if possible, the colonists took to their most important of freedoms to work and to do just as they thought best. As a result, they achieved independence from Great Britain in 1787, while the British Empire was collapsing and was no longer on the international map.
To build a new world order, then, for the last 100 years, they chose to be free slaves to Great Britain, an empire that was not in competition with us or with the other states in the world.
While the founding fathers thought of the United States as a place without any competition between nations, the New World Order was built on the premise that “all nations,” “all classes,” and “all peoples” would be free to live and work and share their wealth freely and safely in their own lands. In that spirit, they set the world in motion by setting the conditions for the advancement of human civilization, and, by so doing, were making this a reality of this century.
The Declaration of Independence describes what happened next:
A few years before the Declaration of Independence, the United States Congress passed a law that guaranteed the rights to freedom of the press, including the right to freedom of speech, association, and assembly, as well as the right to freedom from foreign governments and foreign corporations. The government did not have to hand over the right to freedom of every people to a foreign country, and did not have to use force. To recognize this right, Congress passed a bill in April that gave citizens a right to have their own passports and to travel there whenever they chose.
The Constitutional Convention of 1787 then changed the wording of the Declaration to say that liberty and the government must “secure, restrain, and neutralize all foreign powers, and to establish foreign laws, regulations, and governmental institutions to insure the