The Great Hypocrisy: The Declaration Of Independence

America today owes all its power and glory to a great document written by a great man: The Declaration of Independence. Jefferson is a well-determined, well-educated man who happened to be in the right place at the right time. That time is the time when the Colonies started realizing that they are in fact living under a soul sucking injustice imposed by Great Britain and its tyrant King Georges the third. It is the time when the Colonies realized that a people must only declare their loyalty to a government who cares about their needs and makes legislation as it best suits the people. What they were yet to realize, however, is their personal act of tyranny upon blacks and women, which makes up a great hypocrisy regarding The Declaration itself. As a person, Jefferson rose to …show more content…
As Americans, we owe a lot to this piece of ingenuity and its authors: we owe our gained freedom, our established economy, and our decreed power that we forced upon the world around us. It is astonishing that the great country that is the United States, with all its glory and worldwide power, was only established two hundred and forty years ago. Two hundred and forty years is not a long enough time for American to throw the ideals of Jefferson that appealed for a better life and a better future, where all humans are treated equal. Two hundred and forty years is not a long enough time for Americans to forget that they once lived under the tyranny of a conqueror, and that they must have mercy upon other people and use the power they possess wisely. Nevertheless, it took great bravery for Americans to send such a document to their tyrant, and to establish themselves in such a short time, something that maybe other minorities and countries living under tyranny should probably take as an example, or as a beacon of hope to keep looking towards a better