Lord_Data
09-11-2002, 11:54 PM
Thomas Jefferson and The Declaration of Independence
Two years before the ratification of The Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson wrote the manuscript known as A Summary View of the Rights of British America. The summary contains one large difference from the declaration. It speaks mostly of free trade and the rights of the whole rather than individual freedoms and natural freedoms. The summary also is a bit longer and more repetitive.
Free trade and an open market is a very important idea in America. Jefferson proves how Britain tried to take this idea away from the people by enacting a number of taxes on goods such as tea, paper and stamps. He explains in great detail how this limited who the colonies could trade with. This is his focus point in A Summary View of the Rights of British America. He repeats this idea many times throughout the manuscript in as many ways as possible. Why does he do this? He is writing for the common man and what better way to emphasize a point than repetition?
The summary is a manuscript written two years before The Declaration of Independence; however several of the main elements of freedom and independence that are contained in The Declaration of Independence are certainly evident. Jefferson does not concentrate on them and does not include much evidence to support these issues. He discusses only one other issue in detail and that is the freedom to govern as an independent nation.
laugh it up i am a dumbass
Two years before the ratification of The Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson wrote the manuscript known as A Summary View of the Rights of British America. The summary contains one large difference from the declaration. It speaks mostly of free trade and the rights of the whole rather than individual freedoms and natural freedoms. The summary also is a bit longer and more repetitive.
Free trade and an open market is a very important idea in America. Jefferson proves how Britain tried to take this idea away from the people by enacting a number of taxes on goods such as tea, paper and stamps. He explains in great detail how this limited who the colonies could trade with. This is his focus point in A Summary View of the Rights of British America. He repeats this idea many times throughout the manuscript in as many ways as possible. Why does he do this? He is writing for the common man and what better way to emphasize a point than repetition?
The summary is a manuscript written two years before The Declaration of Independence; however several of the main elements of freedom and independence that are contained in The Declaration of Independence are certainly evident. Jefferson does not concentrate on them and does not include much evidence to support these issues. He discusses only one other issue in detail and that is the freedom to govern as an independent nation.
laugh it up i am a dumbass