Thomas Paine, `Common Sense`; Thomas Jefferson, from `The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson` and `The Declaration of Independence`

American literature to the civil war , case of Thomas Jefferson 's Declaration of independence and Thomas pains common sense

Thomas Jefferson was the 3rd president of the United States and the author of the Declaration of independence an article that has been read by many . He was one of the United States most articulate champions of representative democracy and human rights . Through speech and writing Jefferson did communicate his brilliant views about independence philosophy and democracy . The declaration of independence was basically as a result of Thomas Jefferson 's contribution to the

committee of five as a delegate in the hyped second continental congress . The document so produced (the declaration of independence ) was direct information to King George III of the colonies , demanding for independence . The declaration basically recounted the problems and grievances that the colonies the United States , being in particular had against their colonial powers , the British crown , and pronounced the colonies to be independent and Free states from the colonies (Jefferson , 1821

In the declaration Jefferson stressed on the need for the people of all the thirteen states of America working together , as that was the only way that they could use their concerted efforts to achieve independence He stressed on the fact that all men were created equally and endowed by their creator (God ) unalienable rights such as the right of life , right of liberty and the pursuit of happiness and that the people had the right to alter or abolish a government that did not subscribe to the above . This was in direct response to the king of the Great Britain , and the British government that had entrenched itself and was now oppressive in that the king had constricted the Americans freedom of expression by many at times dissolving the representative house for opposing with firmness his invasions on the rights of the people of America , as well as refusing to assent to laws that were meant to establish judicial powers of which made the judges basically dependent on the kings will alone (Jefferson , 1821 )Among other structures that forms the pillars of democratic societies

On the other hand the other man that is regarded to have contributed to the successful out come or result of the American war of independence is Thomas Paine , who did develop the crisis pamphlet that was used to inspire the American solders with encouragement and inspirational words in 1776 (Paine , 1775 .He is also proclaimed to be the first man to have used the word , the united states of America . In his pamphlet entitled common sense that was developed when the American troops were fighting the British troops at Lexington and Concord in mid 1775 , he emphasized on the reasons why America should be independent from the British colony . Citing violation of human rights by the king and the British monarch through oppression , he reiterated how unjust and fooling the monarch system of government was . This document (common sense ) is actually said to have paved way for the development...