The Declaration of Independence

The Declaration of Independence was wrote by Thomas Jefferson is best remembered as the author of the Declaration of Independence and as one of the greatest presidents of the United States ,He is also regarded as a great political thinker and diplomat ,and a founder of the Democratic Party .During his two terms as President ,the United States doubled its area when he bought territory west of the Mississippi called the Louisiana Purchase . Jefferson was a truly democratic statesman .He disliked pomp and ceremony ,the so-called upper-class snobbery He believed that only virtue and talents made one man better than another .Money ,tittle and birth could not give a man virtue or talents .He believed that the majority of people could govern themselves and wanted to keep the government simple and frugal .Jefferson loved liberty in every form ,and he worked for freedom of speech ,press ,religion ,and other civil liberty .He hated “every form of tyranny over the mind of man “.Jefferson strongly supported the addition of the Bill of Right to the Constitution of the United States.

As the war between Great Britain and her American colonies, which had begun in April 1775, continued, the prospects for reconciliation faded, and complete independence became the goal of the colonies. On June 7, 1776, at a meeting of the Continental Congress, Richard Henry Lee, of Virginia, introduced a resolution stating that the “colonies are, and of