5fish
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Let's get back to the point the creation of American was a turning point in world history... http://declarationofindependencehistory.weebly.com/global-influence.html/Yeah, somehow our President, asking another country's President to look into possible corruption is an impeachable offense..?
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“More than half of the 192 countries now represented at the United Nations have a founding document that can be called a declaration of independence” - David Armitage in his essay The Declaration of Independence in Global Perspective
Since 1776, there have been approximately 120 declarations of independence made by different countries and different peoples.
The US Declaration of Independence was not the very first document able to be called a declaration of independence (Scotland and the Netherlands did so first). However, there is little doubt that among written proclamations of independence, the United States Declaration of Independence (DoI for short) is the most impactful of them all. The impact of this document is limited not only to the United States, in the two centuries since its creation, the Declaration of Independence has had a global impact. The DoI states "let Facts be submitted to a candid world" (the facts being the reasons why the US rightfully should split from Britain). This single phrase indicates that Jefferson and his lesser co-authors of the DoI intended for the world to read it, for their self-interest of hoping other countries would support the United States in its Revolution. Yet they also might have wished in their lofty dreams for bettering human civilization, that others would be persuaded by the DoI to bring such ideals as freedom and equality to their parts of the world.
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First, let us examine several documents from aboard that were inspired by the US Declaration of Independence:
- The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen (1789)- This isn't a declaration of independence, but it is the crowning idealogical statement of the French Revolution. One of its key draftsmen was the Marquis de Lafayette, the famed general who became a close friend of George Washington and helped the US win the Revolutionary War. Later, he also befriended Thomas Jefferson, the father of the DoI, while he was US Ambassador to France. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen combines the American idealism of the DoI and intermixes it with more uniquely French Enlightenment intellectual thought.
The Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (1945)- Written by Ho Chi Minh himself, the revolutionary leader of Vietnam. He directly references both the US Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen and boldly declares Vietnamese independence. Ironically, due to Ho Chi Minh's ardent Communism, the US would stand against him during the Vietnam War.
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Furthermore, “the great majority of the unilateral declarations of independence issued after 1776 made no direct reference to the American Declaration” (From Armitage's The Declaration of Independence in World Context).
At the very least, the DoI began the modern genre of political literature called declarations of independence. It made a formal document proclaiming independence very much a political asset or basic need. It offered a template of powerful and eloquent word choice, and a strong formal structure that could be drawn from.