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The Declaration of Independence

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-The Declaration of independence was a great successful document written by Thomas Jefferson a great idealist and a man from the age of enlightment, he was a great writer and was the one chosen to write the declaration of independence, he wrote it with a lot of thought about how people’s emotions would be, how they would react, and how it would work all to their advantage, and with very rhetoric language he wrote this document, stating truths and lies about what was happening in the colonies at that time.

The Declaration was the spark to set off the revolution that was the most successful revolution in human history, making it very great and important. It written to the king of Great Britain, to the people of the United States of America, and also to other countries for them not to get involved such as Spain, France, and Germany.

-The Declaration of Independence was a very clear document stating the causes and events which separated the Colonies from Great Britain, many of the main points declared in this document were the events that were going on in the colonies at the current time such as rights being taken away from people, soldiers not being accused, and the colonist who appealed to the king about those events and many others that were unjust and had accord in the colonies at the time weren’t taken into consideration by none of the British, even though the British and the colonists had the same blood and decent, they saw the colonists as lower and if they lived in some uncivilized place. Many causes and effects lead to the separation because it was just too much and as Jefferson said in his first long sentence, “When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation”, in that sentence he has said that the separation has being declared not just for no cause but for many causes that made them obvious and clear what he is saying, and also he used rhetoric language to state what he meant, if he would have said it shorter it would have being not taking as that important.

-It it clear and reasonable that the declaration was made for many causes that weren’t being attended because of the British thinking that even the lowest class in the military was above the civil law of the colonies, and that no one should immigrate to such a place, taking away so many laws from the people making them pay high taxes well mainly the rich for the lands they owned which was good in a way but for all those who wrote the declaration that mainly had a lot of land it was horrible, but for the poor folk it was good in a way but not even for the poorest of peasants to be able to trade with other merchants from other countries ruined the economy in the colonies. Great Britain was the only country and place they could and would trade to it was illegal for the colonists

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