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　In his room, Thomas Jefferson sat down by the window and began to consider the enormous job he had agreed to do.
"Am I the right man to write such an important document?" he asked himself.

　Today, we all know about Thomas Jefferson. He was one of the first great thinkers of America. As a writer,
　an inventor, a statesman and an architect, he explored the new ideas about science and govern-ment that were taking shape all around him.

　Everyone knows that he became president of the United　States.And today, most people know that he wrote the Declaration of Independence.
　But we rarely stop and think how the young man felt that afternoon as he sat alone in his room, with the greatest challenge of his life before him.

　The Congress had given Thomas Jefferson two weeks to write the Declaration. They wanted him to say clearly that, from now on,
　Americans would not obey English law. With this document, the colonies were declaring themselves independent. Americans would govern themselves.

　This in itself was an enormous job, but Thomas set himself an even harder goal. He felt it wasn't enough simply to declare that America would be free.
　He wanted to explain the new idea that would guide the new country - the idea that all people - not only Americans - had the right to freedom.

　Thomas had first learned the idea of individual freedom as a　student in Williamsburg.
　He had learned that there were certain rights that all people had - to live, to be able to make their own choices, to be free to do as they wished as long as it didn't hurt others.
　Today we take these ideas for granted, but they were fairly new in the 1770s. Not everyone believed in them, or even thought much about them. But Thomas Jefferson did. His teachers said that Thomas was their most thoughtful student.

　Thomas had seen that the British rulers of America were not granting the colonists their basic rights as individuals. The Americans were not allowed to govern themselves, to set taxes for themselves, or to defend themselves.
　Each year, disputes between England and the colonies over these ideas had grown more serious.The Americans wanted to make their own laws, or at least have some voice in the British , government that ruled over them.
　King George would not even consider that possibility. The colonists would have to fight for their freedom. Now it was up to him, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, to take America's first and boldest step toward independence.

　As Thomas sat looking out of the window at the sunny Philadelphia streets, his thoughts wandered. He tried to concentrate on writing the Declaration, but worries over family matters distracted him.
　He wondered about his dear wife, Martha, far away in Virginia.
　She had been very sick, and it took a week or more for letters from his family to reach him. Had she recovered? Was she worse? Wondering about Martha drove him nearly crazy. Thomas also thought about his mother,
　who had died only three months before. He was still full of sadness over her death.

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　Thomas put down his pen and leaned back in his chair. Outside,the street was teeming with people: men carrying lumber on their shoulders; women strolling with frilly parasols to protect their faces from the sun;
　dirty-faced boys and girls dashing through the markets.
　Thomas Jefferson thought back to his childhood days in the green Virginia countryside. How different his life had been, when, as a boy, he was living at the very edge of the wilderness. In his wildest childhood dreams,
　had he ever imagined that events would lead him to such a momentous time?

　The next morning Thomas prepared to work. He set up his specially-made writing desk. He always carried this with him. It looked like a book when it was shut, but the top opened up and became a desk top.
　Inside was a drawer for pens, ink, and sand.
　The pens were made of goose feathers. People wrote by dipping the tips into the ink. Since the ink took a long time to dry, they had to put sand on the page when they had finished so that the sand would absorb the extra link.

　Thomas liked to write standing up. He said he could think better that way. So he stood up at the little desk, arranged the pens and ink and put the little box of sand beside him. Then he took a sheet of paper and smoothed it out on the desk.

　 He felt good this morning. He knew what he wanted to write and he felt that he could do it. He thought back to the stories his father used to tell about his adventures exploring the wilderness.
He was having an adventure of his own now. In fact, the whole country was.

　He dipped his pen into the ink and began to write.

　Some time later he stopped and read what he had written, then took some sand from the box and put it on the sheet. He let it stand for a moment, then blew it off.
　So far, so good. He liked it.
　The Declaration should be strong, but it also should be moving and beautiful.
　The language should inspire people. Thomas wanted it to be more than just an official document that would be filed in a book and forgotten.
　He wanted to write something people would remember for a long time. And not just Americans - it should be written for all people.

　So he began by saying that what was happening in America could happen any-where. Then he turned to the situation in America,
　and said that America had to become independent because the rights of its people were not protected -
　those basic human rights that all people were entitled to.

　Thomas Jefferson believed more strongly than anything else that all people were equal and nobody should be treated better than anybody else.
　And there were some rights that could not be taken away Every person had the right to be alive, of course.
　But that was not all.
　A person also had the right to freedom - to be free to think and do what he wants, as long as his actions do not damage the freedom of someone else. Finally,
　people had a right to be happy and to do what makes them happy.
　There was only one way to protect these basic human rights, Jefferson thought. The government must get its power from the people,
　no~It4he other way around. So he declared strongly that the Americans intended not only to become free of England,
　but to set up a government so that the people them-selves would be in charge.

　Jefferson's Declaration has now been accepted around the world, not only as a new concept of government, but as a new concept of the human individual too.

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413 名前：おいら名無しさんヽ(´ー｀)ノ[sage] 投稿日：2005/04/10(日) 15:31:43 ID:???
トリップは割れたんではなくて、都合が悪くなったんで、自分で晒したんでないの(w

416 名前：413[sage] 投稿日：2005/04/10(日) 15:34:09 ID:???
トリップ付きコテハンを使い分けて、使い分け中にIDが変わってなくてバレたり、
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自分固有の話、俗に言う｢チラシの裏にでも書けば｣ってのが多いんで、
このスレが、そのはけ口になって、他でそれが減るなら、このスレもいいんでないの(w

いつ、どこで割れたか判らないんで、ずっと前からの発言を、自分の責任じゃないと言えるわけだ(w

すげーな、まいったよ(w