How The American Dream Changed In The Declaration Of Independence

It looks like America has been fighting a crisis for centuries. It’s not a war on a battlefield of a history book you’ve read. It’s a fight for a dream that could potentially separate America from being so great. It’s that the American dream has changed from when it first began, to a broader idea. This dream was first thought of by forefathers who wrote the Declaration of Independence. This idea for a great nation seemed like the perfect embodiment for the people of those thirteen colonies back in 1776. Now what has changed from past to present is where the real struggle comes in. Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, along with Ben Franklin, John Adams, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston. They wrote this document to independently

When the U.S Constitution was created in 1787, it was meant to keep order in these States by a unified government. Where the people are held by laws in the lands that they live in. Each citizen should be designated by these laws with no discrepancies. Now, that’s not how society today feels about this when it comes to people of upper class or someone of state/federal employment. Minority groups and the less than upper class feel alienated by their unequal rights when it comes to someone of higher power. This is shown by the number of protests and riots in recent news. Groups like the LGBTQ or the Black Lives Matter community is what has come of these unequal rights. With the growth of arguably the greatest nation on the planet. The United States of America has come a very long way from when it was born. What has changed is the everyday average American. The average American used to be a white man of the thirteen colonies. Now, the average American is of mixed gender, race, or religion going from coast to coast. What seems to have been impacted very little by change, are parties linked in any way to the justice system. People who think they are above the other classes because they are a part of said judicial system. Groups of government officials, rich financial personnel, and even in some cases, law enforcement. All over the country, these groups have used their own judgement to bend the rules to their own personal gain. It’s this personal gain that they try to achieve, that has gotten the minorities to speak out on their rights and freedoms as a citizen. The process of minorities speaking out on those actions is what has caused the American dream to broaden to a more general audience from