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Constitutional Literacy

Module 2: An Examination of the Declaration of Independence

The Reasons for Declaring Independence
A New Theory of Government
The Right of Revolution
A History of Injuries
The Dishonorable Motives of the Crown
The British Empire
Delineating the Authority of Parliament
The Unanimous Declaration
The Declaration of Independence & the Civil War
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When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands, which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station, to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them a decent respect to the Opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

Analysis
The Declaration may be said to be a declaration of independence, inasmuch as it declared what it had already declared two days before. The primary purpose of the Declaration was not to declare independence, but to proclaim to the world the reasons for declaring independence.

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