Did the declaration of Independence serve its purpose?

Question

Did it draw people into the revolution. Give me YES and NO

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did it draw people into the revolution
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Answer 1

We aren't, any part of us, a country of the english crown are we?

Yes it served it purpose!

Answer 2

That depends on what purpose you believe it had. Personally, I believe the purpose was to tell the British what, exactly, our stance was at the time. In that manner, it did succeed. However, by the time it came around, the lines were pretty much drawn between the loyalists (or Tories) and the Patriots, so no, I don't think it drew anyone into the revolution who wasn't already a part of it.

Answer 3

Yes and we are still fighting for it. although some idiots out there don't understand what it is that's because our education system has turned politically bias and they not doing the job they where hired to do.There's a good place to start a cleanup. get rid of the bad educators and test them every year ban political opinions in the class room. from K-1 Graduate school if they don't clean it up stop fed Funding.

Answer 4

~The purpose of the "The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America" as approved by representatives of 12 of the 13 colonies on July 4, 1776, (the "unanimous was added to the title on July 9 after New York cast its affirmative vote) was intended to embellish, amplify and explain (or at least attempt to justify) the actual declaration of independence, the Lee Resolution, which was approved by the Second Continental Congress on July 2. The insurrection was more than a year old by July 1776.

The intention was to 'explain' the 'reasons' for secession from the British Empire and to garner international support. It was greeted by an overwhelming yawn in Europe. As the Committee of Five acknowledged when they presented their draft, the document was not intended to break new political or philosophical ground, and in that they succeeded. The language borrows heavily from many sources, including several British sources and Acts of Parliament.

Did it draw people into the revolution. No. There was no revolution by any stretch of the definition of the term. Did it draw any into the independence movement? Not really. At most only about 1/3 of the colonists ever supported the cause, 1/3 remained loyal and 1/3 were neutral. The progression of the war caused some fence sitters to choose sides when their homes and livelihoods were threatened, but that was counter-balanced by those who abandoned the cause when the British consistently and convincingly defeated the Colonial militias and the Continental Army. But for the assistance of the French, particularly at Yorktown where the French ground forces outnumbered Colonial forces by 25% and whose naval blockade prevented the evacuation or reinforcement of Cornwallis, the war would have been lost. (On the other hand, the colonies south of Canada had become such an albatross around the British neck that sentiment at home may have terminated the war in time, much like Vietnam and Iraq ended - the expense and effort weren't worth the gain to the Empire.) The Declaration played no role in the French decision to ally with the rebels. The French never needed any significant reason to go to war with the British (and vice versa).

One piece of prose that did generate support for the rebel's cause was Thomas Paine's "Common Sense". The interesting thing about Paine's pamphlet is that Paine never set foot in the colonies until November 30, 1774. He spent his first six weeks in the New World in bed at his buddy Ben Franklin's house. Lexington and Concord happened on April 19, 1775. Paine never lived under the "tyranny" of which he wrote. He simply put to paper the rhetoric of Franklin and his pals, without ever verifying his "facts". People were no different then than they are now. They read and believed what the wanted to hear and disregarded contrary facts and evidence. Such is the nature of demagogues and the minions who follow them. Paine's belief in the cause of which he so eloquently wrote was so compelling that as soon as the Treat of Paris was signed in 1783, when he could do so without being hanged for treason, he returned to England.

The declaration, and more significantly, the Lee Resolution, had no effect whatsoever as a matter of international law. The rest of the world recognized colonial independence only after that status was granted to the colonies by their rightful sovereign, Great Britain, in 1783. Finally, in March, 1789, the USA was born.

Links? There are far too many that you need to review to list them here, assuming you want to get at some inkling of the truth. You can research traditional US history books and read and buy into the mythology or you can read primary sources, do a little thinking and conceptualizing, apply a little simple common sense and logic, and start to ferret out the truth from the documented record. That will show you why the great slogan "No taxation without representation" is a bald faced lie. It will illustrate why the "Intolerable Acts" were fair, just, reasonable and necessary. It will establish why the various acts of tyranny as set forth in the Declaration are bogus, why the indictment of King George III is wholly inappropriate (the actions complained of were acts of Parliament, not the Crown and those things complained of were all well within the the province of the governing body to enact, and they were enacted for the peace, stability and security of the empire, including the colonies themselves).

They sources are there. You just have to have the ambition to read them. Such is the nature of education. That general elementary principle applies to life in general. By following that basic rule and reading about the years of failed attempts to build the Afghanistan pipeline until after the US invasion of Afghanistan (after which construction commenced immediately) you can begin to understand the real motivation behind that little escapade, or by reading about Operation TP/Ajax and Mohammed Mosaddeq in 1953, you can begin to understand why Uncle Sam is less than welcome in the Middle East. The list goes on. You won't find real answers on this site because, for the most part, people are too lazy or too unwilling to seek out the truth or they are unwilling to recognize it or accept it when they find it. It is so much easier to listen to the party line. The demagogues count on that. That primary lesson of the 60's is dead and we all are the poorer for it.

As dies knowledge and the quest for truth, so dies freedom and liberty.

Answer 5

It's purpose was to declare to the world why the American colonies wanted to be free of Britain.

It fulfilled its purpose in an eloquent way.

Answer 6

Of course, you don't see us doing things like having high-tea breaks, playing Cricket, taking high-tea breaks while playing Cricket, and bowing to ceremonial Queens and Prince's, do you?

Answer 7

It has not served it's purpose in recent years; via government social policies.

Answer 8

At one time it did,now its spirit is being violated