Text Commentary of the Declaration of Independence
Text Commentary of the Declaration of Independence
‘THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE OF THE THIRTEEN COLONIES’ (July4, 1776)
This is a text commentary about ‘The Unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America’. The Declaration of Independence is a juridical and legal document written sometime between June 11 and June 28, 1776. The reason for that lapse of time is because a draft of the declaration was asked to a group of five delegates of the Continental Congress on June 11, called ‘The Committee of Five’, consisting of John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Robert R. Livingston of New York, and Roger Sherman of Connecticut, but it remains unknown when exactly was it drafted. Anyway, the draft was presented to the Continental Congress on June 28, so it was written down in only seventeen days. What is sure known is that that committee decided that Jefferson would be the man in charge of writing the first draft. So it’s possible to venture that it was written down in Thomas Jefferson’s dwelling while in Pennsylvania, although some passages of the text were corrected or varied by Benjamin Franklin and John Adams days before it’s final presentation on June 28, somewhere in Pennsylvania (maybe also in Jefferson’s). On the other side, it remains unknown whether Roger Sherman and Robert Livingston participated in the drafting or not, although they were appointed to. This document was made to put an end to the bad political relations between the United Kingdom and its colonies in America, which started to deteriorate since the end of the so-called ‘Seven Years’ War’ (known in the States as the French And Indian War) in 1763, a war between Great Britain and France in North America fighting for virgin territories between what’s now Canada and the USA. This war nearly doubled Britain's national debt. The Crown, seeking sources of revenue to pay off the debt, attempted to impose new taxes on its
‘THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE OF THE THIRTEEN COLONIES’ (July4, 1776)
This is a text commentary about ‘The Unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America’. The Declaration of Independence is a juridical and legal document written sometime between June 11 and June 28, 1776. The reason for that lapse of time is because a draft of the declaration was asked to a group of five delegates of the Continental Congress on June 11, called ‘The Committee of Five’, consisting of John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Robert R. Livingston of New York, and Roger Sherman of Connecticut, but it remains unknown when exactly was it drafted. Anyway, the draft was presented to the Continental Congress on June 28, so it was written down in only seventeen days. What is sure known is that that committee decided that Jefferson would be the man in charge of writing the first draft. So it’s possible to venture that it was written down in Thomas Jefferson’s dwelling while in Pennsylvania, although some passages of the text were corrected or varied by Benjamin Franklin and John Adams days before it’s final presentation on June 28, somewhere in Pennsylvania (maybe also in Jefferson’s). On the other side, it remains unknown whether Roger Sherman and Robert Livingston participated in the drafting or not, although they were appointed to. This document was made to put an end to the bad political relations between the United Kingdom and its colonies in America, which started to deteriorate since the end of the so-called ‘Seven Years’ War’ (known in the States as the French And Indian War) in 1763, a war between Great Britain and France in North America fighting for virgin territories between what’s now Canada and the USA. This war nearly doubled Britain's national debt. The Crown, seeking sources of revenue to pay off the debt, attempted to impose new taxes on its