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Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms

by Thomas Jefferson

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9781509455294
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The book has an active table of contents for readers to easy access of each chapter. Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence. He was the second Vice President of the United States from 1797 to 1801 and was elected as the third President from 1801 to 1809. Jefferson was a fighter of democracy, republicanism, and individual rights who motivated American colonists to break from Great Britain and form a greatest nation of all time on the planet. He produced many most influential documents in human history and decisions at both the global and national level. He is in the row with the greatest thinkers including George Washington, Alabama Lincoln, and Benjamin Franklin. Jefferson's preamble is regarded as an enduring statement of human rights and his "all men are created equal" has been called the most potent and consequential words in American history. In 1787, Notes by Thomas Jefferson was first published in English and credited it as an accomplishment for which all Americans should be grateful. On March 16, 1802, Jefferson signed the Military Peace Establishment Act to found the United States Military Academy at West Point that laid out the foundation for the future military power of the States. In 1775, Thomas Jefferson wrote DECLARATION OF THE CAUSES AND NECESSITY OF TAKING UP ARMS before the U.S. Declaration of Independence. Jefferson was is to explain why the Thirteen Colonies had taken up arms in what had become the American Revolutionary War. Jefferson also described what colonists viewed as the unconstitutional effort of the British Parliament to extend its jurisdiction into the colonies following the Seven Years' War. He listed taxation without representation, extended use of vice admiralty courts, the several Coercive Acts, and the Declaratory Act. Thomas Jefferson’s influence has been felt globally and locally in nearly every field of people in America and democratic countries. The reasoning by Thomas Jefferson still remains as relevant today as it was then. This book is one of the most important one about the deepest thoughts of American history and independency by Thomas Jefferson, one of the greatest thinkers of politics and educator on the planet.