Declaration of Independence of the USA - Essay Example

Many of the legislators thought it nonsensical to fight a war for any purpose other than independence, yet others disagreed”.

                    Next, there was the issue of the drafting of the declaration of independence with bitter disputes about the contents of the draft and how it should be worded by taking everybody’s sensibilities into account. As the article, Making sense of Fourth of July states, “Once independence had been adopted, Congress again formed itself into a Committee of the Whole. It then spent the better part of two days editing the draft declaration submitted by its Committee of Five, rewriting or chopping off large sections of text”.

                    It would appear from these accounts that the founding fathers, most notably Thomas Jefferson and John Adams would have had a hard time convincing their peers that it was in their interest to form a union and that there was no better way to achieve this than by all of the states coming together. However, the fact that there was a civil war in the century succeeding the declaration of independence makes it clear that some of the debate and hand wrangling was never fully resolved and that it took a civil war to settle the issue of unionists versus secessionists.