I believe the Emancipation Proclamation relates to the Declaration of Independence because it gave independence to a large group of people.
1. Being a declaration of freedom for the colonies, the Declaration of Independence includes many principles of democracy. The first being that everyone has basic rights that include life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. To make sure these rights will be preserved, a government will be put in place that will get its power from the governed people; and if this governments power is overused and corrupted, it is the right of the people to change or get rid of that government. Which is what they are doing with the British rule and government in the colonies.
2. There are a multitude of grievances listed in the Declaration of Independence. A few of important ones are... the king had refused to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, he also refused to pass laws for the accommodation of large groups of people unless they wanted to give up their right of representation. He has kept standing armies at times of peace in the colonies without consent of our legislatures. He cut off the colonies trade with all parts of the world as well as imposing taxes on them without their consent. Lastly, he took away their charters, abolished their most valuable laws, and altered the fundamental forms of their governments.
3. The colonies had tried to reason and talk with the king, but he had never listened to their rather reasonable requests. So, they had no other choice than to declare their independence from the crown. This included being completely dissolved from the from Great Britain and having all of the rights that free and independent states should have. Encompassing the power to begin a war, make peace and alliances, and establish commerce among other things.
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