Who was the Declaration of Independence wrote to?
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It sevrved notice to the King of England that the revolt that started in the Colonies in April 1775 was actually a total revolution for Independence.  This let the world know what our intentions were as well and helped in getting us aid in our battle with the English.  The Declaration of Independence also set the tone for the constitution we still have today.
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He helped draft the Declaration of Independence. He was considered officially one of the Founding Fathers because he did not sign the Declaration of Independence, because he was opposed to slavery and thought they should have addressed that in the Declaration.
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I think the traditional answer is Pennsylvania.  From the government's website, Graff House is considered "where" he wrote it.  Note that technically they were colonies at this point, and not states, since we had not actually broken away.  See excerpt below:\n\nThe Graff House where Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence \nThe house of Jacob Graff, brick mason, located at the southwest corner of Market and Seventh Street, Philadelphia, was the residence of Thomas Jefferson when he drafted the Declaration of Independence. The three-story brick house is pictured here in Harper's Weekly, April 7, 1883. Jefferson rented the entire second floor for himself and his household staff.
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its the the declaration of independence see this article : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inalienable_rights
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How about a copy of the Declaration of Indepenence which does not include the following from the original draft:\n\n"he has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it’s most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. this piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce: and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people upon whom he also obtruded them; thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another."
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There are 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence
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Declaration of Independence and The US Constitution, respectively.
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Yes.\n\n1) Original copy of the Declaration of Independence is lost. The copy in Washington D.C. is what is referred to as a holograph. That is a term for a handmade copy of a document and is not the same as a laser produced hologram. \n\n2) The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper\n\nI've been unable to verify if the Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper yet.
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This is actually from the Declaration of Independence...\n"...life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Thomas Jefferson, who wrote it, had not quite determined whether or not the colonists had a natural right to property. But he did have great conviction that the British, or any government for that matter, could not impede their God-given right to live out their lives without tyrannical, micromanaging elitists controling every aspect of life.
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The Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, The Smithsonian Institute, Yellowstone National Park, The Grand Canyon National Park, Yosemite National Park, Mount Rushmore National Monument, The Statue of Liberty, Arlington National Cemetary, and the Alamo\n\ns
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The Constitution was “penned” by Jacob Shallus, a Pennsylvania General Assembly clerk, for a fee of $30 \n\nJames Madison, “the father of the Constitution,” was the first to arrive in Philadelphia for the Constitutional Convention. He arrived in February, three months before the convention began, bearing the blueprint for the new Constitution.\n\nGouverneur Morris was largely responsible for the “wording” of the Constitution, although there was a Committee of Style formed in September 1787.\n\nBenjamin Franklin needed help to sign the Constitution. As he did so, tears streamed down his face.\n\nJohn Adams was serving as the U.S. minister to Great Britain during the Constitutional Convention and did not attend. \n\nFrom 1785–1789, Jefferson served as minister to France. He did not attend the Constitutional Convention.
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By the middle of the 1700s, the 13 colonies that made up part of England's empire in the New World were finding it difficult to be ruled by a king 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean. They were tired of the taxes imposed upon them. But independence was a gradual and painful process. The colonists could not forget that they were British citizens and that they owed allegiance to King George III. \n\nVirginia took the first step toward independence by voting to set up a committee to represent the colonies. The First Continental Congress met in September of 1774. They drew up a list of grievances against the crown which became the first draft of a document that would formally separate the colonies from England.\n\nThe unanimous Declaration of the thirteen (original) United States of America was drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776.\n\nIn Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress presented & debated a second draft of the document. Independence Day is celebrated on July 4 because that is the day when the Continental Congress ADOPTED the FINAL draft. \n\nThe 'Declaration of Independence' served to "...publish and declare that [the United States] are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; and that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown."\n\nFrom July 8, 1776, until the next month, the document was read publicly and people celebrated whenever they heard it. The next year, in Philadelphia, bells rang and ships fired guns, candles and firecrackers were lighted.\n\nJohn Adams, a lawyer, the first Vice President and the Second President of the United States, was one of the members of the Second Continental Congress who signed the Declaration of Independence. He wrote to his wife, "I believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival... it ought to be celebrated by pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other..." \n\nThe new nation was officially recognized following the Treaty of Paris in 1783, and in that year, Independence Day was made an official holiday. In 1941, the U.S. Congress declared the 4th of July a federal holiday.
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July 4 (1776) is "Independence Day," which we celebrate every year on that date. The United States won its independence from Great Britain.
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None.  No other country declared or gained independence in 1776
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well, jefferson wrote in the declaration of independence, "when in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another... that governments are instituted among men... deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed... " as justification for the secession of the colonies from the british empire and the creation of a new state.\n\npresumably the same considerations applied to the people of the southern states and their wish to dissolve the political bands which connected them to the republic, especially as when jefferson continued "whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and institute new government... it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government".\n\nseems pretty reasonable to secede from a union based on principles graven in the very document which formed that union.
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you know i did,but i got it mixed up in all the other famoes paper work.is that the one...... o that one,yeah my favorite part was that john hanncok wrote his name big enough so that king gorge could read it without his glasses.so even today people say "can i have your john hanncock?"and mean signatuer.good times.i remeberd the declaration of independence was when we declared our independence,duh.:-)
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Independence day is the day we celebrate USA's self-government.\n\n"On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence. The Constitution provides the legal and governmental framework for the United States..."