The ideas of Thomas Jefferson in The Declaration of Independence

ABSTRACT 2009. This minor thesis discussed about the ideas of Thomas Jefferson as included in The Declaration of Independence. This research took the form of library research utilizing the descriptive technique. The primary data are the words, phrases, and interpreted statement which in the Declaration of Independence text. The secondary data are collected from books, magazines, journals, and internet websites about Jefferson’s background, the Declaration of Independence, and articles. The purpose of this research is to find out the ideas of Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence text. To achieve the goal, the researcher employees historical approach, biographical approach and philosophical approach. Those approaches were related to me each other in order to find out the ideas of Thomas Jefferson as described in the text of Declaration of Independence. Historical approach was applied to explain the event at that time. Biographical approach was applied to understand more about how the author’s intention in the work is related to his background. While philosophical approach was used to know how the philosophy expressed in the one of Thomas Jefferson works. The analysis of this research lead that there were three ideas reflected in the Declaration of Independence values: that all men are created equal, all men have natural rights, and government is used to secure these rights with democracy and freedom

The Declaration of Independence and the American Theory of Government: “First Come Rights, and Then Comes Government”

The topic of this panel is the Declaration of Independence, to which I devoted a chapter of my recent book, Our Republican Constitution. I want to draw on that book to make five points

The Declaration of Independence and the American Theory of Government: “First Come Rights, and Then Comes Government”

The topic of this panel is the Declaration of Independence, to which I devoted a chapter of my recent book, Our Republican Constitution. I want to draw on that book to make five points

Cradled in the Declaration of Independence

This book review engages recent scholarship on the nature of civil-rights lawyering in the African-American bar in the generation before Brown v. Board of Education. Using the recent biography of Earl Burrus Dickerson, one of the leaders of the African-American bar before World War II, the book review finds support for the emerging view that, in the years before Brown, the African-American civil-rights bar was not focused on ending de jure segregation in public institutions, but rather in building up African-American institutions. Contrary to recent scholarship, however, the review suggests that Dickerson personally preferred a more integrationist strategy, and his efforts to build up African-American institutions was less a conscious strategy than a realization of the limitations on his ability to practice law as he wished. Freedom of action, rather than racial equality, was Dickerson\u27s great motivator

We Must All Hang Together ...

At the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, Benjamin Franklin reportedly quipped We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately . In this bicentennial year, it seems appropriate to provide the following visual confirmation of Franklin\u27s words

An Anagram Anniversary

The nation is now observing the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. It behooves logologists to commemorate the occasion in their own, inimitable fashion: by exhibiting a collection of the finest anagrams ever devised on subjects surrounding the birth of the United States of America

The Declaration of Independence as Canon Fodder

Reviewing Alexander Tsesis, For Liberty and equality: The Life and Times of the Declaration of Independence (2012), Justin Buckley Dyer, Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition (2012), Nicholas Buccola, The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass (2012), and Brian R. Dirck, Lincoln and the Constitution (2012)

An Analysis of the Declaration of Independence

The language and syntax of the Declaration of Independence creates a flexibility that allows the opportunity for the document to apply to other situations through its appeal to the human condition and fundamental nature of mankind. It serves as a powerful assertion that transcends time and place because its concepts reflect those lasting desires relevant still in modern history. The Declaration has influenced many groups in their resistance against oppressors including French revolutionaries in 1789, disenfranchised American women in 1848, and Vietnamese colonists in 1945. The language of the documents created during these struggles echoes that of the American Declaration demonstrating the eternal nature of this work. The purpose of this paper is to show the lasting impact of the Declaration in relation to the aforementioned political movements; demonstrating the relevance and power of this document 200 years after its conception