Instruction: Write your own short response, 2 hundred word is required on this question, with a minimum of six citations from all of the assigned sources. Outside sources or lack of sources will ear

1. Support or refute this statement: “[T]he Declaration functioned to mobilize certain groups of Americans, ignoring others. Surely, inspirational language to create secure consensus is still used, in our time, to cover up serious conflicts of interest in that consensus, and to cover up, also, the omission of large parts of the human race”.

I support this statement because the Declaration list was made by listing anything from quartering troops inn colonial homes to imposing taxes without the colonists’ agreement.1 Jefferson also stated in the second paragraph of the Declaration that “all men are created to be equal” and that everyone was born with natural rights that no government could take them away and if they ever did, the people have the right to destroy it (the government).2 The old ways of freedom will no longer be in use but instead people were to create their own kinds of freedom by self fulfillment and shape the society as they will.3 Also Jefferson raised an idea of cutting slave trades for the King because he was afraid of a potential slave riots against the colonies but this was brought down by the Congress because the slave owners did not want to give up the slaves. So this Declaration was not for blacks and the slaves at all.4 The statement that “all men are created equal” was not benefitting women much. Politically women were invisible although they gained some power in households, farms, and on the fields. The whole Declaration was to benefit white men of authority.5 Also the last part of the Declaration was that the rich could avoid military draft by paying for the substitute while the poor absolutely had to serve.6