摘要：Many studies of the Declaration of Independence have approached it from the viewpoint of history of thought, as Carl Becker's masterpiece, The declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas (1922) did. I, while duly admitting the significance of history of thought approach within the context of American history, would like to pay attention to more direct and immediate political and social importance of the Declaration of Independence as a document in which the“causes of separation from the Great Britain”was appealed to the people of American colonies on the historical moment of 1776.
