American History

The declaration of independence was a phrase proclaiming the independence of the United States from Britain in 1776. The phrase expressed the ideas and beliefs of the founding fathers of the United States on what the role of the government should be. In the first line we hold truths to be self evident. The phrase identifies that the reason for founding of the government were rational and that laws could be used in determining what was right and wrong. In the second part that all men are created equal meant that the founders of the nation regarded that all people were equal before the law. The third sentence that they are endowed by the creator with certain inalienable rights expressed the source of the liberties and rights of man the creator. This meant that the power of the people were before those of the government.

The phrase that among these are life and the pursuit of happiness expressed the rights the founders deemed to be important among the citizenly which all sum up to the right of being free. That to secure these rights governments is the institutes of men. The phrase highlights the belief in the founders of the nation that the powers of the government were vested on the people. The last phrase deriving there just powers from the consent of the governed meant that the founders believed that the government could only exist through the approval of the governed.  In 1865, in the celebration of American independence day fiftieth anniversary, the declaration of independence highlighted the new and freshly rejuvenated principles of freedom and liberty for America in the wake of abolition of slavery and the unity of the United States government at the end of the Civil War between the north and the south of America and signified the identity of the new nation. In todays America, the principles outlined in the declaration of independence are critical in the pursuit of the American dream in which democratic ideals are practiced in order to achieve liberty and prosperity for its citizens. These ideals have made America to be a beacon of affluence and liberty attained through the adoption of the principles of the declaration.