The Declaration of Independence contains fascinating ideas of good government. The ideas that benefit the people are natural rights or inalienable rights‚ and all men are created equal. Besides containing laws that benefit the people it also includes ideas that prevent power corruption from any form of government and makes the only reason for a government existing is to protect the people’s natural rights. What natural rights or inalienable rights are is the rights that cannot be taken away from
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School Declaration of Independence When in the course of student events‚ the school has taken away some of our natural rights as scholars. The school has taken our right of dressing how we please. The security guards treat do not treat us with kindness. They are feared by my fellow students who are too afraid to speak up against such cruelty. The teachers who don’t reach for our full potential have added to our rebellion. Our voices and suggestions are not heard by the principal or his
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“The Declaration of Independence” paved the way for freedom in the United States. It rejected ruling from Great Britain‚ and made America its own country. The document was written by Thomas Jefferson‚ a delegate of the Second Continental Congress. The cause was the colonists being tired of the King taking their rights away‚ so they decided to withdraw from Great Britain and become their own free country. Their feelings are expressed in The Declaration when the tone portrayed was critical and straightforward
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be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.” Thomas Jefferson wrote these words as part of the Declaration of Independence. Though many people thought that Thomas Jefferson was a hypocrite due to him owning slaves. They claimed his actions did not line up with his words‚ especially when it came to individual rights. But Jefferson was a man of the people. He doubled the size of the United States with the Louisiana Purchase
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The Declaration of Independence. A document that not only shaped the government and the culture of the United States‚ but shaped the thinking of the entire world. Thomas Jefferson was asked by his committee to take on the job of writing the Declaration of Independence‚ and after some help from John Adams and Benjamin Franklin‚ the Declaration of Independence was sent to Congress. Congress ended up shortening the document by twenty-five percent‚ but Jefferson’s powerful words still remained. Consider
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Did The Declaration Of Independence Influence The Constitution? The Declaration of Independence was created in 1776‚ July 4. It was a way for the thirteen colonies of the United States to separate themselves from Great Britain. The colonies believed that the King of Great Britain was treating the colonies unfairly and terribly. In the Declaration of Independence‚ it stated situations that the thirteen colonies faced while under the control of Great Britain. Each of the situations corresponds with
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The reason for the Declaration‚ or how it came to be‚ was a myriad of issues and slights against the colonists by the British government. Delegates from every colony met to decide how to liberate themselves from Mother England. They had already been at war over the “taxation without representation” issue and it continued to escalate. The colonists were convinced that Parliament didn’t care about them‚ proven by the fact that they were not allowed to represent themselves. As a result the Second Continental
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controlling the teen’s life and to let them be who they want to be and let them decide on their life on their daily lives. This lead to us teens to write our declaration to let us teens decide choices in our lives‚ then having our parents and grandparents choose for us. This declaration shall be read to the world and help us gain independence from being over controlled by our parents‚ grandparents‚ and adults. I hold these truths to be self-evident‚ that all teens are created equal and are given
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1776‚ The Declaration of Independence was signed and America became a sovereign nation. This separation was the first time in history a society of this scale had broken off from its parent country. A series of unique circumstances and missteps on the part of the British made the colonists’ actions inevitable. The United States’ existence nation boils down to money‚ missteps and what happens when an empire disregards and disrespects its subjects. The French-Indian war established the American Colonies
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exhausted of restrictive rules. We have a variety of rules forced upon us since pre-school. We come together to rebel these rules and create our own declaration of independence. We hold these truths to make every student have the same rights. To maintain the rights we want our guardians and teachers to do what we wish for. As time goes by teachers will want to start controlling us again‚ but we shall not let them have full power to our rights. We‚ the students‚ have the power to establish our independency
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