This paper explores the background and events that led to Declaration of Independence. It features biographies of Founding fathers that were elected into the Committee of Five allowing us deeper insight into their psyche as well as their political stances and motivation. Featuring summaries of lives of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston. All this information is analyzed in order to showcase how are the personalities of the five Founding fathers embedded into the Declaration itself. The main purpose of this paper was to prove that legal documents are not devoid of human emotion but instead are a product of personalities of their authors. While certain legal philosophers claim that law should be analyzed without any reference to political, social, moral or even historical context this paper aims to refute that claim showing that legal documents have to be analyzed while taking aforementioned into consideration. Every major legal document was made with a specific goal in mind and influenced not just by their authors but by the circumstances that were present leading up to the moment of its creation. To ignore the societal needs that resulted in creation of said document would imply not only that the law is completely separate entity from society but the law is a purpose on its own which would be a grave error. Law exists to serve societies needs and has to adapt to them and not to be its own purpose.