was a rhetorical not a legal document.
___The Declaration presented the justification for the rebellion andd the establishment of the US...it therefore contains the basic values of the Founders...which states that government doesnt grant us rights,
they belong to us by right of "nature and nature's God" and that human beings have right to overthrow a government that tries to deprive us of those rights.
And if you want to go by what Jefferson himself actually thought (he disapproved of the Constitution as a whole I believe....thought it gave too much power to the Fed) he was opposed to celebrating Thanksgiving because he thought it was too religious.
____Most Americans didnt feel that way...Jefferson was not representative..
And I can bring up the Treaty of Tripoli while we're at it which states that we are not a Christian country.
_____We are not a Chrisian country, but we are country composed mostly of Christians...and our cultural and political values flow from that.