documents. It is essentially a one-sided document, a justification of the American Revolution

presented to the world; but its unique combination of general principles and an abstract theory

of government with a detailed enumeration of specific grievances and injustices has given it

enduring power as one of the great political documents of the West. After stating its purpose,

the opening paragraphs assert the fundamental American ideal of government, based on the

theory of natural rights which had been held by, John Locke, Emerich de Vattel, and Jean

Then follows an indictment of George III for willfully infringing those rights in order to

Robert R. Livingston as a committee to draft a declaration of independence. The committee

is borrowed from the resolution of July 2.

of Congressionally imposed secrecy in June 1776 for a country wracked by military and

June 11 appointed Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and

The colonists stood by the truths so emphatically that they were compelled to write the Declaration. In fact, the rest of the Declaration of Independence relates directly to liberty, where Jefferson lists grievances against King George III, he shows where the King abridged their liberty. The logic behind liberty makes it the closest word to truth in the historic work. The Declaration of Independence besides for being a document that granted freedom to all men, had a sec

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