Thomas Jefferson Dbq Notes

Jessica Turro hunter Torres 9/24/12 Period 3 The declaration of liberty By doubting Thomas Jefferson Argument * Thomas Jefferson Necessary for one peck to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the superpowers of the earth , the separated and tint station to which the laws of nature and of natures God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should decl ar the causes which impel them to the separation * Thomas Jefferson wanted every colonies to have freedom of speech, being entitled to their freedom and their rights.Evidence * We hold these truths to be self evident That all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain infrangible rights that among these are life , liberty and the pursuit of happiness. * . driving their just powers from the consent of the governments that, whenever any inning of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to demasculinize or to abolish it, and to institute its power in such form as to them shall seem most like to effect their safety and happiness. * WE THEREFORE, THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE join STATES OF AMERICA, in General Congress assembled, appealing to the supreme judge of the solid ground for the rectitude of our intentions , do , in the name and by the authority of the wide-cut people of these colonies , solemnly publish and declare, that these United Colonies are, and of the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, all in all dissolved and that, as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. Appeals * Pathos- that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their creator with certain living rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. * Logos-the history of the present King of Great Britian is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having, in direct object, the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these seas. * Ethos- Rhetorical Strategies & Analysis * Thomas Jefferson uses ANAPHORA as a rhetorical strategy within his speech repeating He Has. * Thomas Jefferson has a frame with in his speech he begins with stating his line of human rights and ends with his argument.