The Declaration of Independence of the United States was made to inform the world that 13 united colonies of America were now free from Great Britain. It also explains why America decided to separate from the British and that their reasons why justifiable. America was now free to do anything that other independent states had to right to do. The newly states believed that God would provide them with a protection while trying to establish a form of government. There are two historians that interpreted what the Declaration of Independence meant to them, by the names of Bernard Bailyn and Howard Zinn. Bailyn’s interpretation said, “The Declaration of Independence represents the colonists ' deepest fears and beliefs. The colonists believed they
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Bailyn talks about how he thinks America wanted to get away from England’s rule because they were trying to enslave the colonies by putting all these taxa and stamp act on them and he believed that God would provide them protection during this process. A document that helps support Bailyn’s enslavement idea is written by Charles Thomson, a Philadelphian young schoolmaster, in complaints about the taxation put upon the colonies. He writes, “The very nature of freedom supposes that no tax can be levied on a people without their consent given personally or by their representatives.” Another document written by Thomas Jefferson wrote to the delegates at a Continental Congress asking for America’s rights supports Bailyn’s idea. The document said, “[he is] begging leave to lay before him, as chief magistrate of the British empire, the united complaints of his majesty’s subjects in America; complaints which are excited by many unwarrantable encroachments and usurpations, attempted to be made by the legislature of one part of the empire, upon those rights which God and the laws have given equally and independently to all. In the Declaration if independence, itself, states, “…the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature 's God entitle them … that they
Bailyn talks about how he thinks America wanted to get away from England’s rule because they were trying to enslave the colonies by putting all these taxa and stamp act on them and he believed that God would provide them protection during this process. A document that helps support Bailyn’s enslavement idea is written by Charles Thomson, a Philadelphian young schoolmaster, in complaints about the taxation put upon the colonies. He writes, “The very nature of freedom supposes that no tax can be levied on a people without their consent given personally or by their representatives.” Another document written by Thomas Jefferson wrote to the delegates at a Continental Congress asking for America’s rights supports Bailyn’s idea. The document said, “[he is] begging leave to lay before him, as chief magistrate of the British empire, the united complaints of his majesty’s subjects in America; complaints which are excited by many unwarrantable encroachments and usurpations, attempted to be made by the legislature of one part of the empire, upon those rights which God and the laws have given equally and independently to all. In the Declaration if independence, itself, states, “…the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature 's God entitle them … that they