The Declaration of Independence serves as one of America's most treasured symbols because it identifies the moment at which the nation was born and, describes the reasons for its birth. It announced the separation of the thirteen colonies from England and retold, for Americans and the international community, the criticism that had led to the call for independence.

By the middle of the eighteenth century, differences in life, thought, and economic interests had formed between the colonists and England. The British government tried to adjust colonial commerce in the British interest. The Stamp Act passed by Parliament in 1765 motivated a violent colonial clamor as an act of taxation without representation. The Townshend Acts (1767) led to such acts of violence as the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party(1773). In 1774 Britain responded with the vigorous Intolerable Acts. The first Continental Congress met in September 1774 and requested King George III for amends of their complaints. The king ignored the colonists' c

On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress met in the Pennsylvania State House (now Independence Hall) and approved the Declaration of Independence. Two days earlier the Congress had voted in favor of Richard Henry Lee's motion to declare the freedom and independence of the thirteen American colonies from England. The Declaration was written to influence public opinion and gains support both among the new states and overseas especially France, from which the new "United States" received military assistance.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

The Declaration of Independence has unquestionably progressed as one of America's most celebrated and honored documents that has not been overlooked until this day. It will until the end of time be passed on and the story of how it came to be will in no way go beyond recollection.

The constructed Continental Congress deleted a few passages of the draft, and revised others, but completely rejected only two sections: 1) a unfavorable reference to the English people 2) a passionate indictment of the slave trade. The

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