Thursday, January 6, 2011

ARTICLE: Declaration of Independence vs the Constitution of the United States of America


While the Declaration appears as a passionate outcry of abuse and emancipation for the colonists, the Constitution revokes such revolutionary presence and institutes a Bourgeois liberal government. The respective tone of the Declaration is that of raw emotion driven from a chain of events that left them alienated, infuriated, and desperate to break away from Great Britain. The Constitution on the other hand is setting for the plans for a new type of government that yields considerable power; contrasting the wishes of the early republicans.



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