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Human genius and the Declaration of Independence      I would like to show that the view of gentle nature that is shown in TheDeclaration of Independence is taken more from the script and that that view isin disagreement with two of the three esays given in social class. The scripturalperspective of man is that he was created by a divine Creator with a specificplan in mind and made in the scope of his Creator. Men are entitled to thepursuit of happiness but also required by the Laws of Nature and Natures immortal tobe the just attendants of the land and of the governed. The Nature of man issinful so that they must be governed but those who govern must be accountable toGod just as the founding fathers were. God is Sovereign over men as the finalJudge.     The Declaration of Independence is a document co-written by thefounding fathers in order to declare their license of the Crown of Britain.They belived this to be within their rights ind owed upon them by their Creator.Believing that they were under religious persecution and certain forms of"absolute tyranny" from Britian the founding fathers felt it was necessary tobreak the bonds that committed them to the monarchy. Not whole did they feel theyhad the God given right to do that but they also based their arguments on theworkings of presidencys of the time and contemporary theories of government ofwriters and political-social thinkers of their time.     The three essays that were given to us in class, Politics by Aristotle,Of Commonwealth by Thomas Hobbes, and Of the Limits of Government by JohnLocke are all actually intersting essays on how government is supposed to funtion.Although the founding fathers probably read all three of these essays andsimialar philosphical thought went into the writing of The Declaration ofIndependence I think that the only essay of the really used by the foundingfathers was Of the Limits of Government by J ohn Locke. Unfortunately theversion of this essay given to us in class was truncated and consisted actuallyof two different essays written by John Locke. . Thomas Hobbes 1588-1679 isthe founder of the theories of Hobbism which calls on absolute monarchy in orderto deal with what he calls inherently selfish, aggrandizing nature of humanity.... ...place to God, and afterwards to the laws."     It seems pretty clear to me when I readThe Declaration of Independenceand when I read quotes from the founding fathers and their contemporaries thatit was the work of strong Bible believing men that first made the monumentalleap in breaking union with Britian. Unfortunately their words and lives relieve oneselfgone by the roadside in our hearts and minds.Instead of learning about GeorgeWashingtons famous words of Christian faith or how he emerged unscathed frombattle with his uniform riddeled with bullet holes our muniment books teach usall about how he could not lie w hen he chopped down the cherry tree. If men suchas Hobes and Aristotle could have even welled up enough courage in their coldand timid souls 200 years ago to break the tyrrany of the British, I stronglybelieve that our plain would have quickly decayed in immorality and greed.     "So whither you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the gloryof God."(1Cor 1031)- Christianity and the Constitution p.51,53 Americas Providential Historyp.156 Myth of Separation p.195-96