The Declaration of Independence, along with the preamble of the Constitution and speeches and writings of our statesmen, help define the foundational character and values of America. The ...

The main objectives of the Declaration of Independence were to announce a ... 13 Jefferson would draw from his Summary View, his preamble to the draft constitution for Virginia (which was placed ...

A: Before the Declaration of Independence, in many ways ... are those four first principles in the preamble: , the right of revolution, the doctrine of equality, the doctrine of consent, and ...

Actually, there’s a lot of other stuff in the original text of the Declaration of Independence that could ... of writing a long-overdue update of the preamble: We hold these truths to be ...