decleration of independence
Quite possibly the most critical document ever written in the history of our great country was the declaration of independence. This document set off a chain reaction of events that came to shape a nation, an independent nation. After reading the document over a few times while writing this paper I have come to realize something, I have never actually read it. Sure I knew its significance in history and I knew what it was about but I never actually took the time to read it through. The first two paragraph of this document sum up what it is to be an American and to be a patriot and I have overlooked it for some time. Our founding fathers, to use the cliché, were true patriots and wanted nothing more than to be free from the grasp of England. In the first two paragraphs of the document Thomas Jefferson eloquently explains to us, the people who were later to become known as Americans, we were born a free people and can no longer be oppressed by an overbearing and unjust mother country. He states that everyone is born with certain unalienable rights. These opportunities are bestowed upon everyone. Now we look back on this document and realize that some of these stateme
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Approximate Pages = 12 (250 words per page double spaced)
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