The Constitution did not create this country , the Declaration of Independence did?

Question

Do you agree with this statement ? Why or why not .

Answer 1

I would put forward that the legislative organisation of any country is technically the "created" point of it's existence, but culturally (In the US's case anyway) a document like the Constitution and the events surrounding it are far more influential in the long term.

Answer 2

Yes. The Declaration of Independence was written 11 years before the Constitution and was the basis for the start of the Revolutionary War.
A country can exist without a Constitution.

Answer 3

The formation of the United States of America was actually agreed to by Congress 15 November 1777 with The Articles of Confederation. Upon the March 1, 1781 ratification by Maryland, the President of the Continental Congress officially became President of the United States in Congress Assembled.

A new nation could not have been formed until after we were declared independent from Great Britain and the reign of King George III.
I think it's important to remeber, The declaration of Independence did not refer to the "United States of America". Yet the original declaration is titled "The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America." The document also refers to its signers as "Representatives of the united States of America".

Consequently the first article of the Articles of Confederation I states. "The Stile of this Confederacy shall be
"The United States of America".

Answer 4

I agree, the Constitution set up how the Federal Government would operate.

The Declaration, established America as free and Independent states.

Answer 5

Yes and no. The Declaration was a declaration of war against the British empire. A war that many people in Vegas would have voted against us. The Constitution set up the system of government and the rights we had. If anything the treaty of Paris is what started the United States since that ended the Revolution and Britian said so long.

So I guess it depends on when you think America started.

Answer 6

The Declaration of Independence was just as its name implies. Together, the 13 colonies declared themselves independent of Great Britain but they were not necessarily united as a single nation.

The Constitution firmly set the foundation for the operation of the newly independent nation’s government.

Answer 7

It matters little. The merger of all the North American countries into one superstate will become a reality one day and a new set of rules and regulations to govern your lives will come into effect. The Declaration of Independence will have no significance other than an artifact of nostalgic history for all to view in the museum. The Constitution will be rewritten or maybe replaced with something entirely different. Sorry for not answering the question.

Answer 8

Agree. the Declaration of Independence did announce and define this country as who we are. the Constitution defines our agreed upon rights and limitations, our laws.

Answer 9

No! Incorrect on both counts!

It being ordinary men who gathered together albeit of many vastly differing backgrounds and set forth to append in writing provisions that would guide and henceforth set in motion the envisaged freedom, liberty and justice that would enable its then young and new country to step forwarded untied into the dawning of a new world - free from the cluster and trials and tribulations of the old.

Constitution, Declaration - I refer it in alphabetical order.

Those men who had gathered together and sought so ensure its foundation without any impoverishment to the people - those are the men who created the basic tools that led one to the other.

Answer 10

No. The Founding Fathers and their generation founded this country. The Constitution and the Declaration are the tools they used to do it.

Hammers don't build houses, people build houses.