Classics Essay Liberty Literary Moral Political Series
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In the present essay, then, I shall attempt to show how the Declaration's rhetorical artistry reveals the nature and extent of the American colonists' struggle to free themselves from the British, the magnitude of that struggle, and the kinds of rhetorical strategies they used to make their cause memorable and their struggle credible to the readers of the Declaration. Although the United States Constitution provides for the separation of powers in three distinct branches of government, in the years leading up to the American Revolution, the American colonists tended to conflate the executive, legislative, and judicial functions of the state into one. As a result, the republican form of government that they and their British oppressors were striving to establish was largely, in practice, a government of, by, and for the people. The Declaration of Independence, drafted to inform the world of the colonists' grievances and their sense of victimage, was conceived and written as a set of discourses meant to persuade the British government to act in accordance with its role of protecting the rights of the colonists. That role was one of the chief themes of the Declaration. But it was also designed to convince the British people, and Americans who were sympathetic to that cause, that the American colonies were not only justified in seeking to establish themselves as an independent nation, but that the British people had no moral or legal grounds for refusing to allow them to do so. 827ec27edc