Declaration of Independence Was Drafted

¶ … Declaration of Independence was drafted by Thomas Jefferson during the period June 11 to June 28, 1776 and was considered to be the nation's most respected sign of liberty and Jefferson's long-term testimonial. Jefferson employed illustrious and memorable phrases to take this declaration to the minds of the American people. In this declaration, "Jefferson listed the tyrannies of the British King and expressed the significance of individual liberty in the form of obvious facts with aim to prove to the world the importance of cutting ties with British King and to become independent." This declaration declared the independence of thirteen colonies or states. These states are: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. The signers of the Declaration of Independence represented the new states.

In brief, the Declaration of Independence explains the want, the will and the hopes of the people in an elaborate and convincing way with self-explanatory facts. The essence of the Declaration of Independence is as follows. In the sequence of human proceedings, if there arises a necessity of politically connected entities to break up, the reasons for the separations to be explained. With regard to rights, the obvious truths include: all men are created equal; life, liberty and happiness are the birthrights of individuals. "To obtain these rights, men have created governments. If any government fails to provide these rights, it is the rights of the people to remove that government and institute a new government that ensures safety and happiness." In throwing out governments, care should to be taken to ensure that the failures of the government are not temporary. If the government fails to perform for a long time, removal of government should be thought of. It is the responsibility of men to throw out the governments that continuously harass people and official systems. The thirteen colonies of America have undergone such a continuous harassment under British King that the British government needs to be thrown out and these states have to become independent.

The tyrannies of British King include the following. He never accepted good laws; He prevented his Governors to pass laws of importance or laws of urgency; He stopped passing laws to accommodate large districts; He assembled legislative bodies at far off places; He dissolved Representative Houses again and again; He prevented others from being elected; He prevented increase in population in these states by stopping foreigners from becoming citizens; He blocked justice; He made judges to depend on him; He built new offices and sent officers to harass people; He forced armies in these states during peace times; He made military more powerful than civil power; He introduced unfamiliar jurisdiction with the aim to cut-off trade with all parts of the world, to inflicting taxes, to deprive the benefit of trial by Jury, to transport to far-away places, to eliminate free laws and to suspend our own legislatures; He waged war thereby abandoning the government; He destroyed our seas, coasts and eliminated lives; He completed the destruction with the help of foreign mercenaries; He captured the fellow citizens as captives; He inflicted war by bringing foreigners; He never ruled like a Head of an entity; He always acted like a cruel ruler even after many warnings. All these cruel behaviors of the King forced these thirteen colonies to declare Independence from the King in order to get their basic rights like liberty and happiness. Hence, in June 1776, Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence of these 13 colonies from the British King. As a token of approval, the representatives of these states signed this declaration.