Jefferson's Definition Of Freedom In The Declaration Of Independence

Carter introduced his definition of what it’s meant to have integrity in “The Rules about the Rules.” Integrity can carry so many meanings, consequently, freedom, equally and what it meant to be an American can as well. July Fourth, 1776 the Declaration of Independence, was written by Thomas Jefferson, was signed. He proclaimed that all men were created equal. And to this came the big debate as to what it’s meant to be an American, have freedom and live equally among other Americans. July fifth, 1852, sum seventy six years later, Frederick Douglass addresses the public after the day of what today is called Fourth of July, a day for celebrating the nation’s freedom; criticizing so called Americans for enslaving colored people and the abused

The Declaration of Independence was written to the declaration proclaiming the independence of the colonies. It opens with the famous statement; “we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and pursuit of Happiness.” (WP. Jefferson. 696) To hold truth and be self-evident is having “human equality and certain unalienable rights.” (Declaration) By having rights is not meant as having power, wishes or desires but to be “acknowledged and affirmed liberties inherent in human nature.”(Declaration) Thus, the Government has the ability to dismantle your rights if you disobey any laws. The notion that all men are created equal, was the biggest dispute. Douglass and later King used that statement to contradict the American government. Wherefore, the equality in the Declaration of Independent meant “whatever our differences, there exists a fundamental human identity, that no one is born to rule or be ruled.”(Declaration) Jefferson vision of freedom went beyond wanting dependents from the British. While writing the Declaration of Independence he had it in mind to put an end to slavery. When he presented the Declaration of Independence to delegators, it included a passage attacking slavery. “He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying then into slavery in another hemisphere or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.” (Debate) The delegate’s from South Carolina and Georgia refused to sign it, therefore it was removed and replace with a more vague passes about King George’s incitement of “domestic insurrections amongst us.”(Debate) The removal