The legality of the USA Declaration of Independence

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumbull's_Declaration_of_Independence 

Today we have talked about the USA Declaration of Independence and about how its content was closely related to many of the ideas of Enlightenment. Last week there was a curious debate in Philadelphia about the legality of the Declaration of Independence. British and North American lawyers discussed about the content of the document written by Thomas Jefferson and defended different positions according to the historical moment where the Declaration was written. Here you have the BBC report about this debate and the conclusions of every part: 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15345511

And the following links include a lot of information about the Declaration: the full text, biographies of the signers, the historical context, the influences Jefferson received, a timeline of the independence process and the Revolutionary War and so on:

http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htm

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration.html

http://www.founding.com/the_declaration_of_i/

And you? What do you think? Is it legal to rebel against a government that doesn´t respect people´s rights? Can something legal be unfair? Or, on the other way around: can something illegal be fair?

More about purchasing power and salaries

Source: http://www.expatify.com/advice/countries-with-the-higest-taxes.html

The following are some interesting links that will provide your with more data about some of the new concepts we have studied today:

- This is a study of GfK, a market research company, about the differences of purchasing power in Europe. If you click on the map, you will have acces to a table of comparison of the purchasing power of the different European countries:

http://www.gfk-geomarketing.com/fileadmin/newsletter/pressrelease/purchasing_power_europe_2008_2009.html

- In this link you can find a chart of the minimum salary (wage) in different European countries:

http://www.fedee.com/minwage.html

- The last link is in Spanish. It´s a report of Adecco, a temporary work agency, about the average salaries in the European Union:

http://www.adecco.es/_data/NotasPrensa/pdf/197.pdf