The document promugated, July 4, 1776, by the leaders of the thirteen British Colonies in America that they have formed an independent country. See note below.
Document adopted on July 4, 1776, that made the official break with Britain; drafted by a committee of the Second Continental Congress including principal writer Thomas Jefferson.
Declared American sovereignty and independence from all other nations of the earth. Established right of the American People to alter or abolish their government.
the document recording the proclamation of the second Continental Congress (4 July 1776) asserting the independence of the colonies from Great Britain
It is the document that our Founding Fathers wrote to tell why the colonists wanted to be independent and free. It told about the main ideals and goals we wanted for our new nation. It also told what the colonists did not like what the British king was doing and why they did not like the things the king was doing.
A document that states the reasons the thirteen American colonies wanted to be free of Great Britain's government.
The statement which gave the reasons why the colonists wanted to free themselves from British rule. It was signed by the members of Congress on July 4, 1776.
The Declaration of Independence is a document that the American colonists wrote and signed to prove to the King of England that all 13 colonies agreed that they should have the right to be free. It consists of a preamble, or introduction, followed by three main parts.
Proclamation read in Tel Aviv by David Ben Gurion on May 14, 1948, declaring Eretz Yisrael, the historical and spiritual homeland of the Jewish people, an independent state, to be known as the State of Israel.
Written by Thomas Jefferson and adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence justified the American Revolution by reference to republican theory and to the many injustices of King George III toward the colonies. The declaration's indictment of the king provides a remarkably full catalog of the colonists' grievances, and Jefferson's eloquent and inspiring statement of the contract theory of government makes the document one of the world's great state papers.
The Declaration of Independence was a document adopted by Dáil Éireann, the revolutionary parliament of the self-proclaimed Irish Republic, at its first meeting in the Mansion House, Dublin, on 21st January, 1919. It followed from the Sinn Féin election manifesto of December 1918. Texts of the declaration were adopted in three languages: Irish, English and French.