Abstract
On the 4th of July 1776, was adopted by the Second Continental Congress, the American Declaration of Independence, completing the Lee Resolution, that asserted the independence of the Thirteen Colonies. This Declaration proclaimed that the Thirteen British Colonies in North America were 'Free and Independent States' and that 'all political connections between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved.' It is now considered as a founding document for the United States of America (as you know, the 4th of July is celebrated as Independence Day in the United States), and as a turning point in the history of political sciences. To what extent was this Declaration built in reaction against the British rule and society?
