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The founding fathers knew they were going against the whole world at the time who believed that by God's will, "the King is the law". They knew that if they were going to get individuals to join their cause and persuade other nations to accept them as a new nation, they had to have a better theory of justice to justify their revolt. The Declaration of Independence is philosophical warning shot against the whole world. The American Founding Fathers, based the revolution logically on the revolutionary idea that natural law (not the king) gives rise to natural rights and that individual liberties are independent of any other authority.

⁠— Armon Eaton