AMERICAN DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
I agree with both historians because as we can see, in Baylin´s interpretation names the power that God has given to them to protect themselves and that principles such as liberty and freedom are both civil and religious. T he Declaration of Independence was written because the Founding Fathers thought England would break liberty in America. In the Declaration of Independence, we can find these evidences when they say that: "all men are created equal (as it is written literally in the Bible), they are endowed by the Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". As John Locke said, the natural state of men was liberty; the liberty of humans came from their birth. So as a summary the principal ideas which claim Bailyn are that the Declaration of Independence is all based in divine and relligious beliefs of the colonists. In the case of Zinn, it saws the clear ideas of high classes to persuade lower classe...
