The Declaration of Independence was signed into perpetuity on July 4, 1776. The purpose of the document was to firstly: to explain why the previous colonies of Britain, now the United States, were declaring themselves free and independent from any other country 's control. The second purpose was to put into words the reasons behind this declaration and the injustices inflicted upon America by the king of Britain. Whether the document achieved these purposes could be up for debate, but this paper will provide evidence in an attempt to prove that the Declaration was effective in reaching the writers ' goals. The first goal of the Declaration was to explain why the united colonies wanted to be pronounced as a separate entity from Great Britain.
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Mainly that: separation is a God-given right, their reasons for separated are whole and justified, and that separation is their only logical path to take. For the time, and even in many spaces today, evoking God in the subject of rights is a powerful influence if done correctly. It is inarguable that God has given humanity unalienable rights, as stated in the Declaration 's preamble, and that God cannot be fought or moved. By opening with these words, any reader who believes in God as a fact will have to agree to the rest as facts and by opening with facts, the writers of the Declaration leave the reader with plenty of initiative to continue nodding along, to continue agreeing. In a double trap: anyone who wishes to deny what the preamble states will not only be denying God, but his or her own human rights as well. By having people to claim his or her rights, the Declaration forces him or her to acknowledge the rights of the colonies in the …show more content…
. . .” – the ground is then set to move on to the actual list of these abuses in order to fully show that separation is the right course of action (The Declaration). The last sentence of the Declaration states: “To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.” This sentence continues the trend of sensitivity by again manipulating a readers’ opinions and feelings. “Candid” is consider a good word, a that most would want applied to them. Therefore, in a way, by calling readers “candid” from the beginning, the writers of the Declaration influence them to be candid in their reading. Therefore, it is with readers’ minds opened to the best of the writers’ ability that they move on to the arguably least agreeable part of the Declaration: the indictment of the king and/or list of complaints. However, even in the listed complaints, the sensitivity of the writers shows. The cold, precise language the list is, for the most part, written in aids in the reading of these things as facts in the way that the introduction and preamble are read as
Mainly that: separation is a God-given right, their reasons for separated are whole and justified, and that separation is their only logical path to take. For the time, and even in many spaces today, evoking God in the subject of rights is a powerful influence if done correctly. It is inarguable that God has given humanity unalienable rights, as stated in the Declaration 's preamble, and that God cannot be fought or moved. By opening with these words, any reader who believes in God as a fact will have to agree to the rest as facts and by opening with facts, the writers of the Declaration leave the reader with plenty of initiative to continue nodding along, to continue agreeing. In a double trap: anyone who wishes to deny what the preamble states will not only be denying God, but his or her own human rights as well. By having people to claim his or her rights, the Declaration forces him or her to acknowledge the rights of the colonies in the …show more content…
. . .” – the ground is then set to move on to the actual list of these abuses in order to fully show that separation is the right course of action (The Declaration). The last sentence of the Declaration states: “To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.” This sentence continues the trend of sensitivity by again manipulating a readers’ opinions and feelings. “Candid” is consider a good word, a that most would want applied to them. Therefore, in a way, by calling readers “candid” from the beginning, the writers of the Declaration influence them to be candid in their reading. Therefore, it is with readers’ minds opened to the best of the writers’ ability that they move on to the arguably least agreeable part of the Declaration: the indictment of the king and/or list of complaints. However, even in the listed complaints, the sensitivity of the writers shows. The cold, precise language the list is, for the most part, written in aids in the reading of these things as facts in the way that the introduction and preamble are read as