r equality. In the first paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, it relates that when a country chooses to break ties with her government, a justification is called for.The next section suggests the basic human rights that the founding fathers believed every government should allow their subjects. “…We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed….”(Jefferson 428) Giving the citizens these basic rights would allow everyone the chance to achieve above their born status, and to strive for whatever might give them happiness.Though term was yet to be coined, these rights give birth to the “American Dream.” The bulk of The Declaration is specific in making complaints to and about King George the III. All the complaints are in violation of some basic right or another. The Declaration of Independence in essence says to England, “we are free men, and potentially a great nation, we will not be restricted and bound by your unjust and inhumane laws any longer.”After the complaints, are the explanations, of how the colonists have answered the unfair actions with protest or petition, and what their response to this treatment shall be. They then call the king a tyrant, “unfit to be the ruler of a free people…(Jefferson 430).” This statement is an example of the American work ethic. It shows that the colonists were not afraid to go to war, and work hard against the British to gain the equality they dreamed of. I suppose that those two, intangible, obscure concepts do pertain to the Declaration of independence. People felt very strongly about the revolution, and wrote and painted, and compo...
