American Declaration of Independence is a document that was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which declared the independence of the American Colonies from Britain.
I agree with Bernard Bailyn's interpretation: the Founding Fathers wrote the Declaration of Independence because of that fears and beliefs of the people: they believed in evil and deliberate conspiracy of Britain with evidence in the Samp act, coercive act and all those raises of taxes that were oppressing them. In fact, they start by saying: 'When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth...'.
At the same time, they tried to saw their belief that America was chosen by God to create a big and powerful nation based on those enlightenment ideas of liberty and freedom and to play a special role in the history: 'the foundation of a great and mighty empire, the largest the world ever saw to be founded on such principles of liberty and freedom, both civil and religious'.
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