UNITED STATES OF AMERICA´S DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

I agree with Howard Zinn's thesis that the Declaration was written because of selfish reasons.
Everyone may think the Revolution, and the Declaration therefore, were a result of common people aspirations, aspirations of freedom and equality. But this wasn´t exactly like that. The ones who were truely affected by the "oppression" of the English were the colonists upper-classes. The bourgeoisie and merchants were angry with the English because they force them to pay high taxes, and also becuase they were not represented in the English Parliament. For those reasons, upper-class colonists started to think about how could they spread out from the the English control. They knew they were only a small percentage of the population and that they needed the rest of the people to the Revolution for becoming successful.
As Zinn exposes: "The solution was to find language inspiring to all classes", and it was, it truely was. "Specific enough in its listing of grievances to fill people with anger against British." Since the first moment, people join the cause and they believed that the British were the stone in the shoe of American freedom.
The Declaration of Independence was also carefully written "to avoid class conflicts", to forget for one moment the differences between clasess and to get all together against the British.