The Declaration of Independence

The Declaration of Independence was written in 1776 by Thomas Jefferson. America is now in the year 2013 and is drastically different than 237 years ago. In the document, Jefferson states eighteen complaints about King George III. In the second complaint, he states “He has forbidden his Governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend them.” This means that King George III did not let the Governors pass important laws that were needed at that time. He needed to sign them but he did not and let the country suffer. This has changed in modern times because the President of the United States wants what is good for America and wants the people to like him. He does what is important and needed to help America be a better place. In the seventeenth complaint, Jefferson states “He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.” This means that he has managed to have people, within their own colonies, fight each other. He wants to rule like the Native Americans who lived with war and destroyed anyone under any circumstances. It is very different today because people are trying to have World Peace and abolish war. All King George III ever wanted was war, war, and more war. That does not happen in present day America. It is curious to one how America is different now and how life was a couple hundred years back.