The reasons behind having two copies of the Declaration of Independence, one written and one printed, seem practical enough. The overall goal was to give the new nation legitimacy across a broad audience. Settlers across the 13 colonies needed to feel that this new nation belonged to them, not simply to a group of men in Pennsylvania. To fight to defend a nation you own provides much more motivation than fighting between one king and another. On the other hand, the monarchs of Europe would've seen a printed copy as a joke. Anyone could hire a printer to create documents; They were how lesser classes communicated. The government documents of England and other sovereign nations were all written, and so America's had to be also.
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