and what does it mean?
2006-09-04 14:45:53 · 11 answers · asked by Ariel 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
okay maybe that wasn't a good question...okay here:
Ariel
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How did Thomas Jefferson play a fundemmetal role during the Age of Reason?
What exactly is the Age of Reason?
How did he help form the american society we have today?
How was he important to our society?
Please don't answer with what he did but reasons why the things he did impacted out country/society?
2006-09-04 14:59:29 · update #1
if they didnt make that youd still have a british accent
2006-09-04 14:50:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is important, that, the colonies were tired of British rule, taxes, and felt they were and could be self-sufficient. Politics will always be something that man disagrees with, and when men have a following and support in their beliefs and ideas, they become powerful. When people form together towards a common goal, it becomes a wave.
This was not only a message to the world's superpower that we no longer wished to be under British rule. This was a message that said we are no longer colonials...but we are Americans. The free world was no longer an adolescent, but was declaring that it was an adult.
2006-09-04 14:56:24 · answer #2 · answered by iviicrociot 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Declaration of Indepence is important because it not only declared us as an Independent Soverign Body but if you study
it you see the basic elements that would lay the ground work for our Constitition. Signifacently our Rights of Life, Libert and the Pursuit of happiness.
2006-09-04 15:11:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a historic document declaring the united state a soverign state and independent[at the time there were thirteen colonies] Also declaring the intent to be democratic with equality for all citizens That all men are created equal, along with life, liberty , and happiness.
2006-09-04 14:53:37 · answer #4 · answered by longroad 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was a statement of principles, regarding why (what would become) the US broke away from rule by England.
It doesn't have one meaning, other than what the names says -- a declaration that these state shall become an independent nation.
2006-09-04 14:48:08 · answer #5 · answered by coragryph 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Okay.... It's important because the colonists were tired of paying taxes to British government without any say so. Our founding fathers, led by Thomas Jefferson, got tired of this and basically told the British crown to shove it... we're going it alone and going to start our own representative government.... without you.
'nuff said?
2006-09-04 14:55:50 · answer #6 · answered by Mr. Peachy® 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the declaration of independence is important because it is a written document which was signed by a committee to declare independence from England. it gave us freedom from England as a separate and liberated country.
2006-09-04 14:54:28 · answer #7 · answered by christina p 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The US declared it's independence from England, that was a big deal back then, the founding fathers new they where about to be targets.
2006-09-04 14:49:39 · answer #8 · answered by Zen 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its an offical statement that we are no longer reliant on another government to support us. It was really a way to tell England that we weren't going to live under their rule anymore. Sort of an offical, we want out, kind of thing. Naturally, they weren't going to give us up without a fight.
2006-09-04 14:49:12 · answer #9 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it symbolizes all that we stand for and all that we ever will stand for in the near and far furture.
2006-09-04 15:11:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋