Most people view the Declaration of Independence as simply
an announcement, but it's quite a bit more than that. It was written mostly by Thomas
Jefferson as a list of charges against King George III and the British Empire and
explains in detail why it was that the colonies were breaking away from the mother
country.
Regular elections, limits on police and government
powers, freedom of speech and jury trials are all part of our Constitution now, but the
ideas to include those values started with what the British had done to the colonists
over the years, and what they wanted to protect themselves from enduring ever again.
The Declaration is a summary of those ideas and a guideline the Founding Fathers would
use later.
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