On July 2nd, 1776, the Congress voted for independence from the United Kingdom.(Roark, et al. 2019, p. 494) Two days later on July 4th, Thomas Jefferson, on behalf of the thirteen states of the United States, the Thirteen Colonies at the time, would write and publish a declaration of independence from the United Kingdom for the states, kickstarting the Revolutionary War.(Roark, et al. 2019, p. 495) (NARA, Jefferson, 1776) Jefferson wrote that the affirmation that “all men are created equal” was a “self-evident” truth,(NARA, Jefferson, 1776) and that he wasn’t writing “new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of,” but rather placing “before mankind the common sense of the subject.”(Kennedy, 2011, p. 11) (LOC, Jefferson, 1825) (NARA, Jefferson, 1825) He listed three notable rights, “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”(NARA, Jefferson, 1776) He continued with twenty-seven points, eighteen of which were directly targeting the king of Britain at the time, George III; some of those points being: refusing to “Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good,” making “Judges dependent on his Will alone,” “imposing Taxes on us without our Consent,” and “depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury.”(NARA, Jefferson, 1776)