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1、the Declaration of IndependenceThe Declaration of Independence The American War of Independence started in 1775 and ended in 1783. It refers to the revoluntionary war that the thirteen colonies fight against the British colonial domination and strive for the national independence.In the same year th
2、e treaty between American and British was signed and British recognized American Independence. The Continental Congress from every colony met and decided that the thirteen colonies should be free and independent states, but they needed to write up a specific document to declare their independence fr
3、om Great British. Immediately , a committee of five was appointed to prepare a formal declaration of Independence. This committee included Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, John Adams of Massachusetts, Robert Livingston of New York, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, and Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Je
4、fferson was chosen to do the writing. On July 4, 1776, the Second continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states, and thus no longer a part of the British Empire. The birthda
5、y of the United States of AmericaIndependence Dayis celebrated on July 4, the day the wording of the Declaration was approved by Congress. The first sentence of the Declaration asserts as a matter of Natural law the ability of a people to assume political independence, and acknowledges that the grou
6、nds for such independence must be reasonable, and therefore explicable, and ought to be explained.One of the most famous quotes of the Declaration is: We hold this truth to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that am
7、ong this are life，liberty and the pursuit of happiness. To secure this right governments are instituted among men, deriving their just power from the consent of the governed This sentence has been calledone of the best-known sentences in the English languageand the most potent and consequential word
8、s in American history. However, there is a biggest pity of the Declaration of Independence. The contradiction between the claim that “all men are created equal” and the existence of American slavery attracted comment when the Declaration was first published. “If there be an object truly ridiculous i
9、n nature”, English abolitionist Thomas Day wrote in a 1776 letter, “it is an American patriot, signing resolutions of independency with the one hand, and with the other brandishing a whip over his frightened slaves.” In the 19th century, the Declaration took on a special significance for the aboliti
10、onist movement. Historian Bertram Wyatt-Brown wrote that “abolitionists tended to interpret the Declaration of Independence as a theological as well as a political document”. Abolitionist leaders Benjamin Lundy and William Lloyd Garrison adopted the “twin rocks” of “the Bible and the Declaration of
11、Independence” as the basis for their philosophies. “As long as there remains a single copy of the Declaration of Independence, or of the Bible, in our land,” wrote Garrison, “we will not despair.” For radical abolitionists like Garrison, the most important part of the Declaration was its assertion of the right of revolution: Garrison called for the destructionof the government under the Constitution, and the creation of a new state dedicated to the principles of the Declaration.
