Which of these is the BEST assessment of the Declaration of Independence?

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It created the institutions that would initially make up the first federal government of the United States of America.


It was a statement of the start of war against Great Britain.


It let the Great Britain and the rest of the world know that the British colonies considered themselves free and independent of colonial rule.It let the Great Britain and the rest of the world know that the British colonies considered themselves free and independent of colonial rule.


It created the first truly democratic government in world history.