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gizzy98 asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 1 decade ago

What parts of the Declaration of Independence represent social political philosophies?

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    - The Declaration was drafted by Thomas Jefferson, with only minor participation by a committee that included John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston, pursuant to a resolution of the Second Continental Congress. It was adopted by Congress on 4 July 1776. Jefferson himself belittled the originality of his work, stating that, though he penned the Declaration without consulting other sources, it contained nothing novel in the way of political thought. In this, he was correct: the basic theory of the Declaration was derivative of the thought of Locke and reflected English Whig theory as it had evolved in the preceding century and a half. George Mason had anticipated much of the substance of Jefferson's ideas in his draft of the Virginia Declaration of Rights (12 June 1776), though the literary grace and felicity of Jefferson's Declaration eclipsed the ponderous lawyer's couplets and triplets of the Virginia Declaration. ...

  • geftos
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    What became into the main purpose, traditionally conversing, of the statement of Independence? to confirm that tyranny is prevented and has no possibility of cutting-edge. So what are the social/political philosophies at the back of those lines? nicely, they at the instant are not unavoidably in line with any social/political philosophies, they're greater of a insurrection against social/political philosophies. exceedingly, the philosophies of imperialism, monarchy, autocracy, and so on.

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