Majority Don’t Know Why We Declared Independence

Majority Don’t Know Why We Declared Independence

A new Morning Consult poll finds 53% of Americans don’t know why the American colonies adopted the Declaration of Independence to separate from Britain on July 4, 1776.

Nature and the God of the Declaration of Independence

Until the founding of the United States of America, the nations of the West did not have to set forth the reasons for their existence and the basis of their authority. Land and blood established the cohesive commonality. Monarchs and aristocracies ruled by the power they had in their hands and justified it, at their own discretion, by claiming a divine right to rule, which the unified religious authority of the Christian West usually backed up. …

53 Percent Don’t Know Why We Declared Independence from Britain in 1776