In addition, ” A decent respect to mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the seperation”. This document is written in a way which is not meant to be agressive or provacative. ” A decent respect to mankind requires”, the forefathers of America are respectfully attempting to reflect their reasoning upon England. “requires” means that it is necessary are there cannot be a way without this. This being the reasons for which America wants to lose their ties with England.
” It becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them to one another”. When something is necessary there cannot be a way without it. To dissolve is to move away from , in this case political bands. These political bands are England. This powerful fragment of a sentance means that there cannot be a way which the people of America will continue to be tied to England.
The introduction to the Declaration of Independence is designed to provide a rational for the text that follows. It attempts to introduce an explanation lying under reasoning and logic which is supported by public opinion.
The Declatation of Idependance is a very important document of history. It is a product of the Enlightment, an example of what Enlightment actually is. This form of Enlightment is the kind which occurs when many people are listening and are heard at the same time.
The ideas of the enlightenment influenced the American Revolution and the American government and consequently the Declaration of Independence many ways. First there was the intellectual movement that spread from Europe to Americans; which than influenced the rational the American Revolution and subsequently the core beliefs that truth can be discovered through reason.
Furthermore enlightenment ideas encouraged people to question traditional authority. We know that Jefferson’s writing in the Declaration of Independence was influenced among others by Locke who believed that if people were against or wanted to abolish the government when it does not protect people’s “natural rights”. The ideas of the enlightenment stimulated people of the new United States to have governmental system founded on law and reason.