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    The Influences on the Declaration of Independence and Constitution Locke‚ Montesquieu‚ Rousseau‚ and Voltaire influenced the Declaration of Independence and Constitution in many ways; they were also Enlightenment thinkers. First‚ Montesquieu believed in the separation of powers to avoid tyranny and promote liberty and justice‚ which was expressed in the Declaration of Independence. The theories he had made were very influential in the making of the Constitution. He wrote a system of check and

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    Text Commentary of the Declaration of Independence    ‘THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE OF THE THIRTEEN COLONIES’ (July4‚ 1776) This is a text commentary about ‘The Unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America’. The Declaration of Independence is a juridical and legal document written sometime between June 11 and June 28‚ 1776. The reason for that lapse of time is because a draft of the declaration was asked to a group of five delegates of the Continental Congress on June 11‚

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    Paragraph summaries: 1: Jefferson states that America is at its time to become separated from England. 2: Jefferson then list certain rights that the people should obtain and how the King is harming America. 3: Jefferson believes that the King is not obeying the laws that were specified mainly for him. 4: The King does not let the Parliament to pass laws without his consent. 5: The King only pass laws to those worthy of it. 6: The meetings that the King set up are to weaken American consent

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    Grievances Translation 1. “He has refused his Assent to Laws‚ the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.” Translation: The king has refused to sign into a law system where Courts administer justice. 2. “He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance‚ unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended‚ he has utterly neglected to attend to them.” Translation: The King has forbid his Governors to

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    When in life‚ sometimes it is necessary that you leave behind people or things you once cared for because of mistreatment or irritation. In this case‚ I never particularly cared and that may be part of the problem but I am still not getting the freedom I was promised when I started working. I deserve better treatment because I am a hard worker‚ I do not slack. I always make sure to give my job one-hundred percent. I have the right as a teenager to only work a couple days a week for a few hours

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    The Enlightenment was an influential movement that was brought over by European immigrants and changed the colonist’s ideology. It challenged the previous idea of absolute power given by divine right. There were four main principles of the Enlightenment: the order of the natural world‚ the power of reason‚ the progressive improvement of society and the most prominent‚ the natural rights of individuals. Thomas Paine’s disdain for the British monarchy was evident in his revolutionary pamphlet‚ Common

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    Social: human rights‚ families‚ women‚ relationships between rich and poor‚ art‚ music Political: rulers‚ diplomacy‚ war Religious: impact of religion on everything else Intellectual: big ideas‚ philosophy Technological: inventions‚ wars Economic: trade‚ money‚ inflation‚ poverty Renaissance society viewed itself as a rebirth began ~1400‚ Florence ended with french invasion of northern italy in 1494 ends in italy with destruction of rome by troops of charles V in 1527 it spread to europe

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    The declaration of independence is one of the most popular documents in the U.S. History. It really challenged the monarch of the King and British Parliament by uniting the colonists and inspiring them to fight for equality‚ liberty‚ and justice. Thomas Jefferson traveled to Philadelphia to be a delegate to the Second Continental Congress on May 1779. Thomas Jefferson soon arrived in Philadelphia‚ He was the youngest member of the congress.The committee met up numerous times to discuss ideas

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    concepts. That is the way that France and the US were back in the 1700’s with the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Declaration of Independence. Thoughts on limited governments‚ the rights of men‚ and popular sovereignty are some points that they have in common. However‚ some ideas were shared between the two documents because of the authors. The idea of limited governments is one topic that both declarations touched on. “That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends

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    In 1776‚ the Declaration of Independence was written and as you know‚ Thomas Jefferson was apart of it. Jefferson also maintained slaves and was a slave owner. Although in the beginning of writing the Declaration of Independence‚ he originally had added ideas about the slavery. At the age of twenty-one‚ you were able to own slaves in the colonies. Owning slaves had been around for one hundred and forty five years at the time Jefferson was still in his twenties. Jefferson had thought that this was

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