When researching American independence or almost any founding-period subject, the Declaration of Independence is indeed a primary source. The difference between primary sources and secondary sources hinges on this simple distinction: a primary source is (or was) "there", while a secondary source is (or was) not "there" but instead talks "about" it.
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The Declaration of independence was based on a document written by George Mason. It was The Virginia Declaration Of Independence.
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it gave us our independence and the rights we have today in the United States of America
The US Constitution established rules for the US government, well the Declaration of Independence did not
On the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Calvin Coolidge gave a speech that directly seeks to answer this question. He provided numerous historical examples to defend his opinion. In brief, he agreed that previous nations had declared the right of people to govern themselves, and previous political philosophers had made some of the same assertions that exist in the Declaration of Independence. However, he said, the United States was the first country to be founded on the three principles of universal equality, natural rights, and self-government, and to base its institutions and efforts for reform upon these principles.