(Analysis of the D.O.I. messages) According to Mon Droit, “[The Declaration of Independence] has everywhere and at all times received the plaudits and huzzas of the multitude.” The Declaration of Independence has been praised many times by people because it stated many important things and summarized the colonists’ motivation for seeking independence. The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson showed that the colonists had a right to separate from the king and have their own government. According to Moses Coit Tyler, “It can hardly be doubted that some hindrance to a right estimate of the Declaration of Independence is occasioned by either of two opposite conditions of mind.” It can be seen by two different kinds of people. The people that see it as a good thing that saved our country and the others that think it was a waste of time. There are three messages that can be seen in The Declaration of Independence. …show more content…
For example, in the essay, Jefferson states that “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal” (pg 112). Thomas Jefferson was telling us that all men are equal in rights. We are not equal because of our personality or what we look like, but we are equal because we all share the same rights. All of these rights come from a document called the Bill of Rights, which states every right that the government has made and enlisted. According to Char Booth, “ Today, too much of the library school curricula fails to reflect the reality of the profession.” Students have rights in the library as well. For example, they have the right to educate, the right to challenge, the right to evaluate, the right to define, and the right to innovate. People don’t just have rights that the Bill of Rights have, they also have rights during