Argumentative Essay On The Declaration Of Independence

After the colonies won the war and the great united states was born; the founding fathers left their people a legacy known as “The declaration of independence” and “Bill of Rights”. In these documents, they wrote down what was expected to be giving to an American citizen as well as the rights of every citizen, “life, freedom and the pursuit of happiness” being one of the many things on the list along with the right to speak up against any oppression. Now almost 2 hundred years later a man by the name of William F. Buckley raises a question that will have the founding fathers worry. People weren’t complaining enough and along with it, they weren’t letting their voices be heard. Something that 200 years prior the founding fathers and all members of the 13 colonies were fighting for. Why weren't citizens speaking up? After all, the whole reason for the revolution was because colonist rights were taking away. If the colonists fought and die for such rights; why weren’t the citizens of the 20th century doing so. Buckley gives us an inside of what was happening in the 1960s and why people didn’t seem to complain anymore. The answer “citizen of America just didn’t want to be in

If we don’t complain our voices will never be hear something that is just unforgivable for an American citizen. In the article “Why don’t we complain” writing by Buckley, he gives somewhat of an explanation for the lack of complaining in the USA. People seem to feel like waiting for someone else to say something instead of them will be a safe debt. Waiting for someone else to speak up will keep them away from the “spotlight”; something that everyone was very happy about turning the 1960s. This course was a problem because when American citizens stop complaining and they just waited for someone else to do it, a very large amount of injustice was happening right beneath their