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    History Essay – Causes and Consequences of the 1945 Declaration of Independence. The 1945 Declaration of Independence of Vietnam is a key event in history‚ which caused and by which caused consequences that affected not only them‚ but other countries of the world as well. The French colonization of Vietnam was the long term cause of the 1945 Declaration of Independence because it challenged Vietnamese freedom‚ violating their national pride and depriving them of a cultural and national

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    PLS201 Reading Notes 1 Concepts of Politics and American Politics STUDY: Lecture Notes 1‚ and We the People‚ chapter 1 Be informative‚ rigorous‚ critical. Provide specific‚ page-indicated references to the text. NOTE1A 15 lines. In chapter one of We the People the authors address the question of how government is made up of the institutions and procedures by which people are ruled in terms of four propositions: 1) Different forms of government are defined by power and freedom; 2) Limits

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    The Influence of Locke’s Social Contract on The Declaration of Independence During the 1700s the American settlers suffered the abuses from their Mother England‚ and constantly fought through the rebellious spirit that lived within them. As their last hopes for independence dissolved by the greediness of the king‚ a man raised his voice‚ encouraging his subalterns to defend their freedoms. Richard Henry Lee proclaimed‚ “that these United Colonies are‚ and of right ought to be‚ free and independent

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    What ideals from the declaration are the most important. There is one ideal in the constitution that is more important than the rest of the ideals. There are a few ideals in the constitution and of them are the inalienable rights of life‚ Liberty and the pursuit of happiness‚ that everyone is created equal‚ that the government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed and that it is within the power of the people to alter or abolish the government. The ideal that is the most important

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    The use of unique grammar‚ antithesis‚ and passive diction all has a persuasive impact on the implications that The Declaration of Independence beseeches. The entirety of the Declaration’s argument is based on the notion that “All men are created equal” (1). However‚ that is not proper grammar‚ proper grammar would call for ‘equal’ to be an adverb ‘equally’ modifying created. But‚ Jefferson wants to explain that all men are equal. Traditionally‚ the ‘equal’ would then come after ‘men’ instead of

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    In the Declaration of Independence‚ there is not much mentioned about religion. It was mainly written as complaints towards the King of Great Britain. There was only one line mentioning anything about god or religion. It was that all men are created equal‚ that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. It is an extremely thin statement but it actually says a lot. It doesn’t say who this Creator is but as a Christian‚ I assume it is talking about God being that he created

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    John Hancock—a signatory to the Declaration of Independence—and leaders such as William Bradford and Thomas Paine carefully read Beccaria’s writings‚ too. A former Pennsylvania Attorney General‚ Bradford penned An Enquiry How Far the Punishment of Death Is Necessary in Pennsylvania in 1793 that echoed many of Beccaria’s arguments (Bessler‚ 2009). Bradford questioned the necessity of capital punishment and argued for the elimination of it for all offenses except high treason and murder until more

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    Document A: John L. O’Sullivan on Manifest Destiny‚ 1839  The American people having derived their origin from many other nations‚ and the Declaration of National Independence being entirely based on the great principle of human equality‚ these facts demonstrates at once our disconnected position as regards any other nation; that we have‚ in reality‚ but little connection  with the past history of any of them‚ and still less with all antiquity‚ its glories‚ or its crimes.  On the contrary or national birth was the beginning of a new history

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    The natural law theory is the point at the crossing between morals and laws. It can be argued that the Declaration of Independence of 1776‚ which states‚ “life‚ liberty‚ and the pursuit of happiness‚” has conveyed the natural law theory in its finest. The Declaration of Independence puts it‚ “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.” St. Thomas Aquinas interpreted natural law as the basic notion

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    influence on The Declaration of Independence. The most important influence was The Great Awakening because it was an emotion packed Christian movement that went through the colonies between the 1730s and the 1740s. The Great Awakening was a cry for individual’s rights and independence. It led the People to be able to break away from tyranny. The ideas from The Great Awakening are what led to The Declaration of Independence. These ideas are what make The Declaration of Independence such a strong document

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