Posted on 07/04/2015 4:19:01 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
The hardest part for constitutional conservatives in 2016 – as it was for Reagan – will be defeating the Progressive RINO Establishment and their crony capitalist enablers in the Republican primaries.
Every 4th of July, patriotic Americans celebrate the fundamental essence of what Thomas Jefferson penned in the Declaration of Independence (with Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston); a commemoration of July 4th, 1776, upon which day the Thirteen Colonies set forth the explanation and justification for a parting of ways with Great Britain and the tyrannical rule of King George III: the legal separation occurred on July 2nd, 1776, when the Second Continental Congress approved a resolution of independence proposed by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia.
The Declaration of Independence clarifies – as no previous document in history, before or since – the philosophical truth perceived among our founding scholars and statesmen that “...all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
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Musket volleys rang out at Lexington and Concord on April 19th, 1775; The American Revolutionary War commenced. Colonials found it more important to face injury or death in the fight for their freedom than to live on their knees under the autocratic rule of King George III. Colonials nurtured, propagated, and cherished a culture of liberty. “Live Free or Die” wasn’t just a catchy turn of phrase.
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