Aisse Tounkara
10/16/2019
Professor Hall
From rereading this time I actually learned a lot. I’ve foreseen a lot of important stuff the first time I read it. Thomas Jefferson and the founding fathers all signed the Declaration of Independence. Out of all the founding fathers Jefferson himself held the most slaves. In the Declaration of Independence it states that all men are created equally. According to the Declaration it states “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness”. This is interesting to me because I skipped past this part. To me this is saying that these are rights for all people. This can relate back to when Slavery was being abolished. Thomas Jefferson included this in the Declaration so the people who were enslaved now have rights and etc. It also says something about Justice. This idea of Justice can mean a lot of different things.
