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[[Image:Rough draft declaration.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The first page of the Declaration of Independence as it began under Thomas Jefferson, with several strikeouts as he formulated his ideas.]]

[[Image:Rough draft declaration.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The first page of the Declaration of Independence as it began under Thomas Jefferson, with several strikeouts as he formulated his ideas.]]

[[File:Painting the Declaration of Independence.jpg|thumb|John Trumbull, The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776, 1786–1820, oil on canvas, 20 7/8 x 31 inches / 53 x 78.7 cm (Yale University Art Gallery)]]

[[File:Painting the Declaration of Independence.jpg|thumb|right|200px|John Trumbull, The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776, 1786–1820, oil on canvas, 20 7/8 x 31 inches / 53 x 78.7 cm (Yale University Art Gallery)]]

After the publication of the Declaration, several British rebuttals to it were published.  John Lind published the ''Answer to the Declaration of the American Congress'', which was commissioned by the administration of [[Lord North]].  John Lind worked together with philosopher [[Jeremy Bentham]] in its authorship, in which Bentham wrote a scathing criticism of the concept of [[Natural Rights]]: "simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense, — nonsense upon stilts".<ref>[https://www.libertarianism.org/publications/essays/excursions/jeremy-benthams-attack-natural-rights Jeremy Bentham’s Attack on Natural Rights]</ref>  Another rebuttal was published by colonial governor Thomas Hutchinson.  Both pamphlets mock the concept "all men are equal" noting that America did not free every slave - even though it was Britain who brought all the slaves here in the first place.

After the publication of the Declaration, several British rebuttals to it were published.  John Lind published the ''Answer to the Declaration of the American Congress'', which was commissioned by the administration of [[Lord North]].  John Lind worked together with philosopher [[Jeremy Bentham]] in its authorship, in which Bentham wrote a scathing criticism of the concept of [[Natural Rights]]: "simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense, — nonsense upon stilts".<ref>[https://www.libertarianism.org/publications/essays/excursions/jeremy-benthams-attack-natural-rights Jeremy Bentham’s Attack on Natural Rights]</ref>  Another rebuttal was published by colonial governor Thomas Hutchinson.  Both pamphlets mock the concept "all men are equal" noting that America did not free every slave - even though it was Britain who brought all the slaves here in the first place.