How the Enlightenment Documents Affected the American Revolution

How the Enlightenment Documents Affected the American Revolution

Introduction

The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America proclaimed the thirteen British colonies in North America on 4 July 1776 its independence from Great Britain and their right to their own sovereign state union to form. The largest part of Thomas Jefferson wrote, and the Second Continental Congress adopted the text is one of the most influential documents of democratic political philosophy. According to the writer, the declaration of Independence was the first ever formal proclamation from the British to Americans (Hardy, 2010).

Discussion

The ...