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. The 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 classes against england using an specific language which create an aggresive situation that defend their country with hard patriotic fellings, fighting as we can see against England avoiding class conflicts.

He also shows that the main idea of the delcalartion was the popular control over governments, the military attacks and the rights of revolution and rebellion to unify great numbers of colonists in their fight. 

The evidences that Zinn supports are found in the Declaration when it said: "whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it´s the right of the people to alter or to abolish it"  these came to said that the English government didn´t provide rights which is the John Locke idea of replace government. It´s also written that to secure the rights of liberty that has to do with what Bailyn defends, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. To obtain these rights, governments should be created for people.

Zinn thinks that it was written on a deliverated way without class mistruct.

So to summarize I can´t  choose one; because the Declaration was full of patriotic expressions, but I think that wat Zinn says is very exaggerated and is not tight at all with what really happened.
Baylin´s interpretation is only based in the divine feelings something I think is right, but that is also join with these patriotic feelings. I don´t agree with the interpretation that Baylin makes of liberty.