MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THOMAS JEFFERSON
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to show support of it with eir lives, their fortunes, and their honor
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to try not to control people or make them slaves to their leaders, but to instead protect their rights
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they believed in a government based on sovereignty
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they wanted to make people move out of the country
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Detailed explanation-1: -Its goals were to rally the troops, win foreign allies, and to announce the creation of a new country. The introductory sentence states the Declaration’s main purpose, to explain the colonists’ right to revolution.
Detailed explanation-2: -The main purpose of America’s Declaration of Independence was to explain to foreign nations why the colonies had chosen to separate themselves from Great Britain. The Revolutionary War had already begun, and several major battles had already taken place.
Detailed explanation-3: -Section 1. Popular sovereignty. All political power is vested in and derived from the people. All government of right originates with the people, is founded upon their will only, and is instituted solely for the good of the whole.