![]() ![]() Most important passage of the Declaration of Independence, and let me tell you why. Most likely to effect" "their safety and happiness." I think this might be the Principles and organizing" "its powers in such form," "as to them shall seem Government becomes destructive" "of these ends," "it is the right of the people to alter," "or to abolish it," "and to institute new government," "laying its foundation on such "We hold these truths to be self-evident." "That all men are created equal," "that they are endowed by their Creator" "with certain unalienable rights," "that among these are life, liberty," "and the pursuit of happiness." "That to secure these rights," "governments are instituted among men," "deriving their just powers from the" "consent of the governed." "That whenever any form of To explain why we want to separate from Great Britain. The causes which impel them" "to the separation." Here's this explanation part, saying, we feel it necessary Opinions of mankind requires" "that they should declare Powers of the Earth," "the separate and equal" "station to which the laws of nature," "and of nature's God entitle them." "A decent respect to the The political bands" "which have connected them with another" "and to assume among the "When in the course of humanĮvents it becomes necessary" "for one people to dissolve Of the individual former colonies, now states,Īs one larger country, but rather as a collection of states, a confederation of allied states, instead of a single nation. ![]() It gives you a sense that they aren't really thinking He specifically points out that there are 13 United States. Of the thirteen" "United States of America." You'll notice here that Gigantic block of text here, but bear with me. Let's read some of theĭeclaration of Independence. Themselves independent, with the hope that theyĬould get the sympathy and the help of the In a way, what Jefferson was doing in the Declaration of Independence, wasn't so much declaring,īut rather explaining why the states were declaring Power like Great Britain, without the help of another Would have no hope of winning a war against a massive imperial They did it at this time, was because they wanted help, and they were particularlyĮager to get the assistance of the nation of France, which had been a long timeĮnemy of the United Kingdom, and the delegates really knew that the new United States of America Why was it that in July of 1776, the delegates finally made theĭeclaration of Independence? The primary reason that Had been a shooting war for more than a year. Had met in Philadelphia, the Revolutionary War ![]() Taken place outside Boston, at the towns of Lexington and Concord. In 1775, over a year before theĭeclaration of Independence, the first shots of the Revolutionary War had In 1773, the famous Boston Tea Party, when a group of colonistsĭumped over 300 crates of tea into Boston Harbor had happened. Unrest over taxation, specifically the Stamp Act, had begun. Than a decade earlier, that some of the first Revolutionary War had been going on for some time. We think of 1776 as being this opening moment of the Revolution. Revolutionary War started with the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson get all of the ideas that he expressed in theĭeclaration of Independence, and what happened to those ideas, once he put them down on paper? In this video, I'd like to explore some of the origins and effects of theĭeclaration of Independence. In fact, at the time, he was about 10 years younger The principle author of theĭeclaration of Independence was this man here, Thomas Jefferson. Independence was really the point of no return for the young United States of America, making an appeal to the rest of the world, to say that their time as aĬolony of the United Kingdom had ended. For example, "We hold these truths to be self-evident," "that all men are created equal." The Declaration of Second Continental Congress approved the Declaration of Independence. On July fourth, 1776, the delegates to the ![]()
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