Post by kshetler on Sept 26, 2013 3:00:35 GMT
The Declaration of Independence is arguably the greatest piece of writing to come from America, if not the world. All revolutions that have followed have based their declarations of war off of our Declaration of Independence. For instance, the French Revolution was directly influenced by our revolution. At its time, it was regarded as the most genuine piece of writing ever published, but there were numerous issues that were not mentioned within it. For instance, Thomas Jefferson never mentioned women or blacks within the declaration. In turn, the great rights he mentions all men have and such are only endowed to a secular group of people. Which at the time was only white, Protestant men. Although the Declaration of Independence is still a phenomenal piece of writing, it could have been more revolutionary than it already was.
The lack of the mention of women in the document is very troubling since equal women's rights could have been established right then and there instead of taking all the way to 1920 when they finally got the right to vote. The point is Jefferson had the perfect chance to break down the walls of prejudice, racism, sexism, etc. more than a hundred years before people like Susan B. Anthony and Martin Luther King had to lead civil rights groups to receive these rights. However, for the time, the Declaration of Independence did a fantastic job of establishing a voice to the now great America. Despite these shortcomings, America would not be the world superpower it is today without the creation of the Declaration of Independence.
The lack of the mention of women in the document is very troubling since equal women's rights could have been established right then and there instead of taking all the way to 1920 when they finally got the right to vote. The point is Jefferson had the perfect chance to break down the walls of prejudice, racism, sexism, etc. more than a hundred years before people like Susan B. Anthony and Martin Luther King had to lead civil rights groups to receive these rights. However, for the time, the Declaration of Independence did a fantastic job of establishing a voice to the now great America. Despite these shortcomings, America would not be the world superpower it is today without the creation of the Declaration of Independence.