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The Declaration of
Independence was created in an atmosphere of complaints about the treatment of
the colonies under British rule. In this lesson you will be given the
opportunity to look at the composed document of the Founding Fathers complaints
and how they structured their Proactive approach to solving those complaints.
We will discuss the Declaration
together, using the following section-by-section questions help you relate this
overview of the Declaration to our previous discussion.
•Preamble: the reasons for writing down the
Declaration (from "WHEN, in the Course of human Events" to
"declare the Causes which impel them to the Separation."). What
reason(s) did the Founding Fathers give for their decision to write out a
declaration?
•Statement of beliefs: specifying what the
undersigned believed, the philosophy behind the document (from "We hold
these Truths to be self-evident" to "an absolute Tyranny over these
States"). What beliefs did the Founding Fathers declare they held?
•List of complaints: the offenses that
impelled the declaration (from "To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a
candid World" to "unfit to be the ruler of a free people"). What
are a few of the complaints? Are any specific events mentioned? If not, is the
information given sometimes sufficient to figure out to which events the complaints
refer?
•Statement of prior attempts to redress
grievances: (From "Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish
brethren," to "Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.") In what
way(s) did the framers claim to have already tried in addressing the
complaints?
•Declaration of independence: (From "WE,
therefore" to "and our sacred Honour.") What will change in the
colonies as a result of the Declaration?
•The signatures: Which signers do students
recognize?
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