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Why is it so Important About the US Constitution?
What is the real reason that our Us Congress signed
the Declaration Of Independence during July 4th 1776 ?
well let's talk about the Us History
what year was the Boston Tea got taxed?
6 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
In short, I believe the main purpose of the Declaration of Indepence was to be free of Great Britians rule and abuses, and wanting a stronger government with rights for the people.
- 1 decade ago
The Declaration of Independence was signed, not by congress but by the 'founders'.
The constitution (written in 1787 and ratified in 1788) is important because it is the supreme law of our land;the backbone of our system.
The men who signed the Declaration of Independence are:
George Read
Caesar Rodney
Thomas McKean
George Clymer
Benjamin Franklin
Robert Morris
John Morton
Benjamin Rush
George Ross
James Smith
James Wilson
George Taylor
John Adams
Samuel Adams
John Hancock
Robert Treat Paine
Elbridge Gerry
Josiah Bartlett
William Whipple
Matthew Thornton
Stephen Hopkins
William Ellery
Lewis Morris
Philip Livingston
Francis Lewis
William Floyd
Button Gwinnett
Lyman Hall
George Walton
Richard Henry Lee
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Carter Braxton
Benjamin Harrison
Thomas Jefferson
George Wythe
Thomas Nelson, Jr.
William Hooper
John Penn
Joseph Hewes
Edward Rutledge
Arthur Middleton
Thomas Lynch, Jr.
Thomas Heyward, Jr.
Abraham Clark
John Hart
Francis Hopkinson
Richard Stockton
John Witherspoon
Samuel Huntington
Roger Sherman
William Williams
Oliver Wolcott
Charles Carroll
Samuel Chase
Thomas Stone
William Paca
Source(s): U.S. History, the real thing not that revisionist nonsense currently being spewed in public 'skools'. - Anonymous1 decade ago
Well, the Declaration and the Constitution are very separate documents, so you might want to research that a bit.
At any rate, money was the main reason for declaring independence. "No Taxation without Representation" was the problem - the colonies did not feel the British government gave them a voice in how they were to be governed, yet they still wanted tax money from those colonists.
There were other issues that added to the problems, of course, but money/representation was the big one.
- heaberlinLv 45 years ago
the U. S. shape is a in demand new way of thinking with admire to governments relationship to the individuals. traditionally the rights of the individuals have been desperate by skill of the sovereign and ought to be taken away at any time without reason. the U. S. shape grew to become into outfitted decrease than the concept that the rights of the individuals have been from an greater capacity and ought to not be rescinded arbitrarily. The the objective of government grew to become into constrained to shelter those rights. This in ideas the form grew to become into written to heavily shrink the government as a manner to not encroach the rights of the individuals. besides the fact that the government has strayed from this critically over the years the basic concepts stay. what isn't yet prevalent is will the individuals as quickly as lower back include liberty and face up to take decrease back those rights the growing to be Federal government has grown to usurp? the 2d superb element with regard to the U. S. shape is that it has outfitted into it the capacity to be amended to duplicate adjustments in society, or maybe to repair the rights of the individuals if the definitely everyone seems to be so prone without the choose for revolution or bloody conflict.
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- TeeknoLv 71 decade ago
OK, I am confused.
Is your question about the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence?
- 1 decade ago
it means u can carry guns and kill eachother whenever you're angry about something.