Required Document: Declaration of Independence by Dawn Netzel https://padlet.com/dnetzel2021/dqyfq92lglauvhz7 Use this padlet to examine and dissect ideas in the Declaration of Independence en-us 2021-02-02 21:14:28 UTC 2025-03-03 17:32:33 UTC hello@padlet.com Annotated Declaration of Independence dnetzel2021 https://padlet.com/dnetzel2021/dqyfq92lglauvhz7/wish/1160055045 Use this document to help you complete the tables in the google doc.  The annotations contain definitions for terms you may not know.]]> 2021-02-03 17:39:12 UTC https://padlet.com/dnetzel2021/dqyfq92lglauvhz7/wish/1160055045 The Declaration as "An Expression of the American Mind" dnetzel2021 https://padlet.com/dnetzel2021/dqyfq92lglauvhz7/wish/1160064848 "This was the object of the Declaration of Independence. Not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of, not merely to say things which had never been said before, but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take. Neither aiming at originality of principle or sentiment, not yet copied from any particular and previous writing, it was intended to be an expression of the American mind, and to give to that expression the proper tone and spirit called for by the occasion. All it's [sic] authority rests on the harmonizing sentiments of the day, whether expressed in conversation, letters, printed essays, or in the elementary books of public right, as Aristotle, Cicero, Locke, Sidney, & c."

—Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee, May 8, 1825]]> 2021-02-03 17:40:43 UTC https://padlet.com/dnetzel2021/dqyfq92lglauvhz7/wish/1160064848 Big Idea dnetzel2021 https://padlet.com/dnetzel2021/dqyfq92lglauvhz7/wish/1160086867 The Declaration itself has no "governing" power, nor does it form a government, instead, it expresses the American Ideals about government.]]> 2021-02-03 17:44:30 UTC https://padlet.com/dnetzel2021/dqyfq92lglauvhz7/wish/1160086867 Declaration "Need to Know" dnetzel2021 https://padlet.com/dnetzel2021/dqyfq92lglauvhz7/wish/1160114047
  • Author
  • Natural Rights
  • Social Contract
  • Nature and Purpose of Government
  • Where the Government derives its power
  • How structure of Declaration supports the main claims with evidence/reason
  • Influence of Locke 

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