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Jefferson was asked to write the Declaration of Independence as a rough draft, and that decision had absolutely nothing to do with his linguistic ability (c'mon, Franklin and Adams were on that committee, and could write rings around Jefferson. I know that this is a meme with the Boomers, but when we studied the Declaration of Independence in elementary school in the 1980s/1990s, it was in a textbook. No cursive necessary. I don't know what the obsession is with cursive. I learned it and also learned calligraphy as well. The Declaration of Independence was originally written by Thomas Jefferson. When Jefferson had finished his draft, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Jefferson met to make changes. Was the Declaration of Independence right? On this day 246 years ago, the following language was famously declared to the world as part of the justification for the United States declaring their independence from Britain: Obviously from the preamble of the Declaration of Independence. “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” Before typewriters and other methods were developed (printing press), how did people hand-write important documents with such precision? For example, the Declaration of Independence. The lines seem to be perfectly level and aligned with uniform typography. How is that possible to do by hand? Timothy Matlack was the gentleman tasked with drafting the original Declaration. He likely used ruled lines that are simply no longer visible due to handling and the passage of time. Pin pricks and line rules were often used during that time to guide a scribe's hand. Declaring independence was absolutely an act of mutiny against the King of England. However, by evoking natural/god-given rights (endowed by our creator) and by clearly stating their grievances with a style of writing similar to legal cases, the founders legitimized their claims. The declaration of independence isn't exactly the pinnacle of penmanship. It's mostly just sentimental value and of course I won't deny its historical value. But both have little to do with its calligraphic value. Which by the way comes mostly from the fact that the original is relatively neat, written with care and straight. This 'clean copy' is the actual original Declaration of Independence and is what is lost. Congress then decides they need a version suitable for publication- larger and God knows not in Jefferson's bad handwriting. Benedict Arnold's story would be more like: Fought for the right to party in violation of the Dean's decrees, but never getting the recognition/ getting the recognition stolen for the sweet pranks he pulled on the dean, gets bitter, falls for suckup honor student who convinces him via blow jobs to sell out his "friends" who treated him like shit to the Dean. Allies committed war crimes against German civilians. Soviets raped millions. Yet that doesn't give nazis right to say yeah we did war crimes but so did others and were all the same. That's not how it works. You had more weapons, more power, you ruled the land and it was your responsibility to ensure war crimes don't happen on your watch. To anybody who can’t read it, here: Mewnipendance day (Actually still can’t read that first word) It has come down to our generation to bring an end to the separation of Mewmans and monsters to live together in harmony. The Constitution is a major basis for those conventions; so are other documents like the Declaration of Independence, the Gettysburg Address, the Martin Luther King, Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech, etc. These documents define who Americans are; what makes Americans similar to one another. Everybody out there just copying the Dutch declaration of independence. On a more serious note, the Dutch Republic was the worlds first “modern” Republic, and all the other anti-monarchical revolutions since (e.g. the United States, France) have been to a greater or lesser extent inspired or influenced by the Dutch revolution. I assume you mean in Britain, in which case there are two factions. First, I'll note that in Britain at this time there was a political struggle between essentially the crown and parliament for political power. Parliament gained the bulk of legal power but the crown still had huge power, namely the power of patronage, the ability to give out officer commission It wasn't a few days leading up to the signing of the declaration of Independence Even more context: the 13 colonies had already been at war with Britain for over a year by the time they started writing the Declaration of Independence in July 1776. OP incorrectly mentions "2nd of July in 1774". At the Second Continental Congress Writing of Declaration of Independence To many in the Continental Congress, war was unthinkable. So why did they finally create this revolutionary document? That would be funny, as the engrossing was done after the printing. The independence was agreed upon on July the 2nd, the Dunlap copies produced on the 4th, and it was a month until the engrossed copy was finally signed on August 2nd. edit: corrected final version of declaration to the agreement of independence The Declaration of Independence was basically a big letter that angry colonists wrote to the British government, saying that they were not happy with the British ruling them, and were not going to view the British as the real rulers of the land.
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