DeclarationOfIndependence



﻿Declaration Of Independence

﻿ Declaration of Independence was a document adopted on July 4, 1776 that announced American independence of 13 colonies and the break of all connections with Parliament. Declaration of Independence was primarily written by Thomas Jefferson, a social activist, politic, third president of US and one of Founding Fathers of America, whos words explained American democracy. Mainly Declaration of Independence focused on listing colonial grievances against King George III, and by asserting certain natural rights, including a right of revolution. Jefferson expressed the beliefs and opinions of hearts and minds of the American people. The political philosophy of the Declaration was not new; its ideals of individual liberty had already been expressed by John Locke and the Continental philosophers and basically what Thomas Jefferson did was a summarization of this philosophy in "self-evident truths".

A sentence from Declaration of Independence which desribed the principles of American people grew over the centuries, became one of the best known, it was used in many political conventions and it is the most potent in the history of United States:

> "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men a created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Persuit Of Happiness."

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