Posted on 07/03/2013 11:00:24 AM PDT by Perseverando
Exclusive: Jerry Newcombe stresses founders' reverence for Creator-endowed rights
Here’s a trivia question for you. The Statue of Liberty holds a torch in one hand. What is she holding in the other? It looks like a book, in tablet form.
The answer is the Declaration of Independence, since the tablet is engraved with July 4, 1776, in Roman numerals.
The great British writer G.K. Chesterton once said, “America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence.”
Two hundred thirty seven years ago, 56 men, representing some 3 million British colonists, voted to approve that revolutionary document. If they failed, these men were voting for their own death.
In June 1776, the Continental Congress voted to approve declaring independence from Great Britain, and a committee was formed to write the document. Thomas Jefferson served on that committee and became the chief author. The bulk of what he wrote was accepted without alteration.
On July 2, 1776, Congress voted to declare independence from Great Britain. That’s why John Adams said about that date: “I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.” He was off by two days.
On July 4, Congress voted to accept the now-modified Declaration of Independence.
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” The great British writer G.K. Chesterton once said, “America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence.””
Time to take it back.
Time to take it back.
Agreed!
Moochelle Obama says being in the White House is like being in prison. We need to make signs:
Indeed.
We will be called names no matter what; might as well make it count for something.
” Moochelle Obama says being in the White House is like being in prison. We need to make signs:
Free Moochelle!! “
I much prefer Gitmo, as it is more conducive to her ideology, and temperament..
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3038631/posts
Looks like Egypt has Obama’s number.
Check out the pictures.
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