Analysis Of Declaration Of Independence

In the year of 1776, a several weeks after the British had left Boston, the Continental Congress called for a committee to write a formal statement of independence, a declaration, from Britain. The drafting of the declaration was handled by Thomas Jefferson of Virginia. Although quiet in congress, he spoke wonders with his pen. His task required him to explain just why the colonies wanted to separate from Britain. In his draft, he claims that all people are equal in God’s sight and that everyone is born with the natural rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In addition to this, he states that a government’s purpose is to protect these natural rights that they all have, at the cost of the consent of the governed to be governed.