The four major parts of the Declaration of Independence are: the Preamble, the Declaration of Natural Rights, the List of Claims, and the Resolution of Independence by the United States. The purpose of the preamble was to gently state that nature itself requires the separation of people from their country and that at many points in history bonds will be broken and new ones will be formed. The purpose of the Declaration of Natural Rights is to explain that people have certain unalienable rights that governments should protect. As for the List of Complaints, the purpose was to provide evidence to all who read the Declaration that King George III was a tyrant and abused his power over his own people and denied their rights. The purpose of the United States Independence Resolution was to formally state that the colonies were now their own states and independent of British rule. The authors of the Declaration had seen both the examination of past events and the review of current events that peace with Great Britain was unattainable. In the years preceding the writing of the Declaration, many famous writers, as well as smaller political groups among the colonies, had made peace efforts. Whenever a petition for reform or reconciliation was sent to the king, it was usually laughed at by him or ignored. Eventually the colonists realized that their only option was to become independent from Great Britain. Declaring one's independence and showing on what basis one's decision had been made was clearly demonstrated by the Declaration of Independence. Enlightenment ideas can be seen already in the preamble of the document. Deism was a religious idea that came to general acceptance mostly during... middle of paper... early on, but he didn't even care about responding to pending laws after some time. After the Declaration of Independence was signed and the colonies felt as if they had written what they needed to declare themselves independent states from Great Britain. While they did not call themselves a unified country, they knew that, for their part, the link between themselves and Great Britain was formally broken. Because of this, Britain obviously saw it as a betrayal in every way, and sent troops and fleets to fight this “revolution”. This Declaration paved the way for the formation of a new country, which of course would later become the United States of America. The whole idea of ​​now being separated from Great Britain gave the colonists a sense of “nationalism” (if you can call it that because they were still separated) that caused them to no longer be tied to the “chains” of Great Britain..