This paper will reflect over the Declaration of Independence. It will reflect by the two primary and noble authors Adams and Jefferson about their intent with this document. It will consider the reasons they did offer to show a Declaration of Independence. It will also consider how these reasons related to the colonists. Last, it will examine the significance of the printed documented.
The reasons these men created this document was to help provide order and peace within the colonies. The colonies were going through a series of problems from the Boston Tea Party to the American Revolution War and other significant events. The British was trying to prove the tyranny in the colony and charge high taxes. The colonists did not want this. They wanted a land of opportunity and justice. These were the values that were important to the colonists.
These values were what Adams and Jefferson created in the foundation, in the Declaration of Independence. It was supposed to be a doctrine that would give liberty. The colonists viewed this printed doctrine with great respect. Some historians argue that, by the doctrines being created in the form it did, help carry the weight of the importance of the doctrine to the colonists.
This doctrine of the Declaration of the Independence brought change and equality to the colonists. It brought the foundations of what the authors Adams and Jefferson were able to achieve. Declaration of Independence remains a cherished and noble doctrine among America today.
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