Today in class, we used the summaries of the Declaration of Independence we created yesterday. We had worked in groups to read the Declaration, and were assigned a section to summarize. Afterwards, we had to shorten the summary into 140 characters, so it could be made into a fake "tweet." My group was assigned the 3rd and 4th sections, which pointed out the issues with the king, including the limitations he put on government in the colonies and his refusal to answer their petitions.
Using our knowledge about the Declaration of Independence today, we had a class discussion about the significance of the signatures on the Declaration. We decided that the signatures not only legalized the document, but were written proof of the committment of the delegates to a revolution. This brought up the idea of trust in government. Though many people trust another until the person breaks that trust, there may not be enough trust in our government. We must trust the people we elect into office, but we also need to speak out if we do not trust them for some reason, whether it is through voting or through petitioning. The concept of trust was present in the Declaration, and has grown more complicated over time.
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