In addition to the explicit denunciation of monarchy, the American Revolution was founded on what the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. described as “a promissory note” contained in the Declaration ...

Furthermore, he remarked: “A true revolution of values will lay hand on the world order and say of war, ‘This way of settling differences is not just.’ ...

In the argument for those who think the American Revolution was not fought for freedom, but to preserve slavery, the key piece of evidence for this came from the 1775 Dunmore Proclamation.