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Copycat

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wanting peace

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idea of way they think

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what they had in common

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role model

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While Jefferson’s intention was to “express theAmerican mind,” his eloquent style elevated what may have been intended as a “press release” into a defining document for our society

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While Jefferson’s intention was to “express theAmerican mind,” his eloquent style elevated what may have been intended as a “press release” into a defining document for our society

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The textual similarities between the Declaration of Independence and its sources of inspiration are so strong that Jefferson can barely be said to have paraphrased. 

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The textual similarities between the Declaration of Independence and its sources of inspiration are so strong that Jefferson can barely be said to have paraphrased. 

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While his ideas may not have been “radically new or innovative,” declaring independence and establishing a new government was an act well“outside or beyond established procedure, principles, etc.”

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While his ideas may not have been “radically new or innovative,” declaring independence and establishing a new government was an act well“outside or beyond established procedure, principles, etc.”

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At least 90 towns, counties, and militias had all declared independence before July 1776. 

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At least 90 towns, counties, and militias had all declared independence before July 1776. 

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Based on the first definition (of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change), Jefferson was a revolutionary merely by participating in the independence movement.

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Based on the first definition (of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change), Jefferson was a revolutionary merely by participating in the independence movement.

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The concepts of natural rights, social contract, and consent of the governed were very familiar to18th-century Americans. 

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The concepts of natural rights, social contract, and consent of the governed were very familiar to18th-century Americans. 