The Declaration of Independence
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get to see a new democracy as opposed to the totalitarianism the colonials were so used to seeing. Jefferson mentions that the Second Continental Congress took authority over issues of international affairs, war and peace, and trade. With these powers in hand, congress basically controlled the government; but it is also unclear regarding the individual states' responsibilities to each other. So we do get our first glimpse of a democracy in the Declaration of Independence
get to see a new democracy as opposed to the totalitarianism the colonials were so used to seeing. Jefferson mentions that the Second Continental Congress took authority over issues of international affairs, war and peace, and trade. With these powers in hand, congress basically controlled the government; but it is also unclear regarding the individual states' responsibilities to each other. So we do get our first glimpse of a democracy in the Declaration of Independence