<span>The Declaration of Independence expresses the human rights of citizens, including life and liberty. The correct answer to the given question can be found from option "A". The Declaration of Independence was signed on 4th of July in the year 1776 and it was a document that showed that the 13 United States colonies were from then on independent and not a part of the British ruled colonies. The people of these thirteen colonies wanted to be free from the oppressions of the British rule and wanted all rights that a citizen of a free country enjoys. John Adams was one of the key figures that wanted freedom from the Britishers. </span>
Democratic-Republican Societies were locally-organized political agrupations that arose in the US territory during 1793-94 aiming to promote and work towards democracy and republicanism and to extinguish aristocratic ideas.
The first society was established in 1793: the Germans of Philadelpia. More than 35 new ones flourished until 1975. Many of their leaders ended up becoming part of Jefferson's Democratic-Republican Party, that he founded at a national level.
The societies claimed for equal justice and knowledge diffusion. But the main and ultimate goal was to "<em>support and perpetuate the EQUAL RIGHTS OF MAN</em>" as, for instance, the society in NY explicitly stated. These rights included freedom of speech, opinion, press, assembly which in turn granted the right to express opinions regarding the job done by government representatives, to demand explanations about public policies and acts, the right to translate those opinion into written format and to spread them by using the press.
Answer: They could have addressed those concerns and could have granted more sovereignty to the colonies and thereby easily averted the conflict. Granting the colonies some form of meaningful representation in London and changing those policies that the Americans resented would have placated many reluctant revolutionaries and defused the most ambitious proponents of independence.
Explanation:
The correct answer to this open question is the following.
What were the causes of the American Revolution? Explain the initial goals of the colonists in 1765 at the time of the Stamp Act and the evolution of their ultimate decision to declare independence in 1776.
The initial causes of the Revolutionary War of Independence were the following. The American colonists were sick and tired of the unfair laws and legislation imposed by the British government. Colonists were tired of the heavy taxation imposed by the English monarchy such as the Navigation Acts, the Stamp Act, the Townshend Act, or the Tea Act, among many others.
The ultimate decision came when these colonists were angry and upset about the fact that they had no voice or representation in the British Parliament. Colonists knew that by then, they were capable of establishing their own form of government.
Pamphlets such as Thomas Pain's "Common Sense" invited Patriots to support the Revolutionary War. And so it was.
The war started and prominent colonists such as Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and John Adams drafted the Declaration of Independence that was promulgated on July 4, 1776.
The First Amendment, Freedom of Speech
