Thomas Jefferson Declaration Of Independence Summary

Analyzing “The Declaration of Independence” It’s July 4th, 1776. The American flag is blowing high above the nation and the United States is celebrating the most epochal moment in the history of their country, Independence Day. Although the Continental Congress appointed a five-person committee, in which Thomas Jefferson was part of, to write the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson was considered and honored as one of the main authors of one of the most masterfully written state paper of our nation. Jefferson’s antithetical and superior form of writing has been analyzed for years and among all his work, The Declaration of Independence is by far the most significant. It can be believed that Jefferson used a very well-known and effective

Jefferson claims it is time to expose the abuses the colonies have undergone and that it is not only their “right” but also their “duty” to throw off a government that oppress their people. He first states twelve abuses that involve King George III’s establishment of a tyrannical authority in place of a representative government. He mentions how King George III interfered with their right to make laws for the public good by rejecting many proposals from the colonies, replacing government representatives with his own ministers, therefore creating a bias government, and interfering with the naturalization of citizens in new regions. Abuses thirteen through twenty-two describe how the parliament’s involvement destroyed the colonist’s right to self-rule. For example the Legislation, passed without colonial consent, the quartering of troops in their colonies, the shutting off of trade with other parts of the world, to force colonist to be tried in England and among these many other. The last five abuses refer to specific actions that the King took to abandon the colonies and to cause war against them. This section of his writing is where the evidence is, the “why” for the declaring of