What did the Declaration of Independence tell the world?

Answer 1

It told the world that the US wasnt going to put up with any more of Britain's tyranny to the colonists, and the America was officially a seperate country...

Answer 2

It told the world that there was another way. It told people that all humans have the right to govern themselves and to have a say in what happens. The success of the Americans is what gave others the courage to have revolutions and form their own democracy's and free governments. I believe that this was the biggest contributing factor to the downfall of the worlds great Monarchy's. Though England still has a Royal Family, they do not have absolute power. I don't think there are very many Monarchy's still in existence in the world today- this is thanks to the courage of the early Americans, and the fact that we won the war.

Awesome Question.

Answer 3

This is the end of rule by the " divine right of Kings ". We choose to govern ourselves.

( So why have we let King George ( Bush ) the First and George ( Bush ) the Second rule us lately? We got rid of King George the Third already with the FIRST Declaration of Independence. We need another Declaration.)

Answer 4

it told the world something unique, as in NEVER before stated:

"that all men are created equal..."

commoners, lords, kings; we are created equal

"and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights"

our rights come , not from the King or the Lord of the Manor, or the Pope or the Cardinal, but direct from God Himself, and they are unalienable; THEY CAN NOT BE TAKEN AWAY

....."and in order to insure these rights, governments are instituted among men".........

.what is the purpose of government? Not to boss or rule or dictate, but to insure our rights given us by God.......

"deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"...

.and when the governed withdraw their consent, the governments powers are no longer just, no longer moral, no longer applicable or right........

never before had a document said that governments powers are revocable by the people, that the Powers that be sat at the pleasure of the masses.....NEVER before in 4000 years of recorded history had such a radical group of ideas been assembled in one paragraph........

Four simple sentences that have become the most blood soaked words in history; hundreds of millions of people have died defending these ideals or trying to obtain them or trying to deny them to others......

learn them well and think of the billions who have lived before you without their protections

Answer 5

"We're mad as hell, and we're not gonna take it any more!"