(the) Declaration Of Independence & Its Historic Origin

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...inspirational and fundamentally political document, Thomas Jefferson and his co-founders put very little that was new into the infamous Declaration of Independence. Most of its thematic ideas had already been much discussed in colonial and pre-colonial America as well as overseas in Europe. From what I have learned, Jefferson drew upon a long oppositionist tradition in Britain, as well as the English and French Enlightenments, as sources for his ideas while his language and the structure of his argument seem to most closely parallel the natural-rights theories of men such as John Locke. In justifying England's Glorious Revolution of 1688, Locke had advanced the contract theory of government, arguing that all "just" governments are founded on consent and are designed solely to protect people in their inherent rights to life, liberty, and property. Radical proponents of this theory had used it to justify civil disobedience whenever government encroached on any of the specified rights; the more conservative Jefferson held that resistance is justified only when a consistent course of policy shows an unmistakable design to establish tyranny. King George III bore the brunt of...

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