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MAJOR FORMS OF WORLD
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GLOBAL STUDIES
connection with Great Britain and were now the free and independent
“united States ofAmerica.”
Written primarily by Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration of
Independence carefully laid out the justification for the split withGreat
Britain.Therewere three essentialparts.First, allhumanshave fundamen-
tal rights.Second, governments are setup toprotect these rights, and they
ruleonlywith theconsentof thepeople.Third,whenagovernmentviolates
thepeople’s fundamental rights, thepeoplehave the right to get ridof that
government and create theDeclaration famously states:
We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that allMen are created equal, that
they are endowed by theirCreatorwith certain unalienableRights, that among
these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness—That to secure these
Rights, Governments are instituted amongMen, deriving their just Powers
from theConsent of theGoverned, that whenever any Form ofGovernment
becomes destructive of these Ends, it is theRight of the People to alter or to
abolish it, and to institute newGovernment.
Members of the committee assigned to draft theDeclaration of Independence—JohnAdams,
Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin—present the
document to JohnHancock, president of the SecondContinentalCongress, in June 1776.
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Thiswas a succinct and eloquent expression of the rationale for liber-
al democracy.
It took years for the Americans to actually win their freedom. The
British surrender at Yorktown inOctober 1781marked the end ofmajor
fighting. Two years later, a peace treaty was signed in Paris. It officially
brought theRevolutionaryWar to an end,withGreatBritain recognizing
American independence.
TOWARDAMORE PERFECTUNION
TheUnited States of America first operated under an agreement called
theArticles ofConfederation. Itwaspassedby theCongress in1777 and
ratified by all the states in 1781.
American leaders feared that an overly powerful central government
would lead to theArticlesofConfederation leftmostpowerwith
the states.Theweak centralgovernmentdidn’thaveanexecutiveor judicial
branch.And theConfederationCongress, the one-chamber national legis-
lature, lacked theauthority to tax, to regulate commerce,oreven toenforce
laws. To become binding on the states, any legislation passed byCongress
had to receive the approval of at least 9 of the 13 states.
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THEAMERICANWAY
THE PENNSYLVANIACONSTITUTION
MostAmerican revolutionaries favored a national republican form of
government that divided power. However, some states opted for a
more basic form of democracy. The 1776 version of the Pennsylvania
constitution stated, “There is but one rank ofmen in America . . .
there shouldbeonlyone representationof them ingovernment.”The
Pennsylvanians rejected the idea of a governor and a senate, and
instead created only one legislative body. In 1790, however, soon
after theU.S.Constitution had been adopted, Pennsylvania changed
its constitution tomatch the federal system.
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